They began when girls began having epilepsy-like fits, which were diagnosed as bewitchment. The trials ended when the governor outlawed spectral evidence, the insubstanial main evidence used in the trials, after his wife was accused.
The trials ended in May of 1693 when Governor Phips was granted the authority to declare those remaining in jail innocent.
it ended in early 1693.
The Salem witch hunts happened in the English colony of Massachusetts, in what is now the USA.
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Abigail Williams and Betty Parris
The Salem Witch Trials is NOT a title for a book. It is the name that describes a witch hysteria, a witch hunt and witch trials that occurred in 1692 in Salem Massachusetts and other towns in Essex County.
A really good book is Salem Witch. I don't know the author, but it has two sides of the story, one of the accused person, and the other of the the accuser. EDIT: That is not a good book is you want to read about the trials because its fiction. I would suggest Witch Hunt by Marc Aronson or A Fever in Salem by Laurie Carlson.
Salem witch trials.
Salem Witch Hunt Examine the Evidence - 2011 was released on: USA: 3 October 2011 (Salem, Massachusetts)
The Salem witch hunts happened in the English colony of Massachusetts, in what is now the USA.
Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, he compared the 20th Century "hunt for communists" to that of the Salem Witch Trials.
1692-1693.
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The last of the Salem Witch trials ended in may 1693
1693
19 people were executed
Abigail Williams and Betty Parris
The Salem Witch Trials is NOT a title for a book. It is the name that describes a witch hysteria, a witch hunt and witch trials that occurred in 1692 in Salem Massachusetts and other towns in Essex County.
A really good book is Salem Witch. I don't know the author, but it has two sides of the story, one of the accused person, and the other of the the accuser. EDIT: That is not a good book is you want to read about the trials because its fiction. I would suggest Witch Hunt by Marc Aronson or A Fever in Salem by Laurie Carlson.