The accused were arrested, jailed, and tried. If they were convicted, they were hanged.
Between 150 and 200.
The famous Salem tavern where some examinations of accused witches was owned by the Ingersoll family.
The main evidence presented against the accused witches in Salem village was the raving testimony of young girls. The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692, and May 1693. Twenty people, mostly women, were executed.
As far as scientist know, 0. The Salem Witch Trials, however, was a time when people were accused of being witches and were killed.
There were no actual, practicing witches invovled, accused or otherwise existing in Salem during the witch trials.
Only regular people were executed during the Salem Witch Trials. No Pagans. No witches. They were tried because the townspeople wanted their property, land, and possessions.
Many Were named ad Many were falsely accused a 19 Hanged
There were no witches in Salem. And the accused were not the ones who have a theory about poison. The accussers are believed by some to have gone crazy because of Ergotism, poisoning by ingesting Ergot fungus, that grows on wheat and rye.
1. There were no witches in Salem 2. They were never accused of/ believed to have ingested poison 3. The only mention of poisoning in Salem literature is the theory that the afflicted got that way from Ergotism, poisoning by eating wheat or rye infected with the fungus Ergot.
in "the Salem witch trials" over 100 people were accused of being a witch.
John proctor and Judge Hawthorne
superstitious and intolerant