In Salem, Massachusetts in America. 21 died.
What?! Ghandi as in the peaceful indian activist and the Salem Witch trials as in mass hysteria and 20 pointles executions?!? They have nothing in common! If anything, they're complete opposites.
No. the only killings during the witch trials were legal executions. Puritans weren't the type who formed angry mobs.
The Salem witch trials took place from June to October of 1692.in the 17th century
The American town famous for the Witch Trials (called the Salem Witch Trials) is Salem, Massachusetts.
1692-1693
There were no witch trials in Salem in those years. The trials happened in 1692 and 1693.
All nineteen exexutions took place on Gallows Hill in Salem.
The Salem witch trials began in 1692.
The Trials were conducted in the towns of Salem Village, Salem Town, Andover, and Ipswich. The accused were said to be Witches from the counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex, in Massachusetts, New England.
Salem, Massachusets.
Plenty of people stood to gain something from convictions and executions, namely the people who had disputes with those who were accused.
Cotton Mather was a prominent minister who supported the Trials and pushed for convictions and executions. He was one of the few people who lived through the Trials that wrote about it and one of fewer who continued to believe and preach that the Salem victims were witches.