Old Salem, Massachussetts.
The Salem witch hunts happened in the English colony of Massachusetts, in what is now the USA.
Unlike most European witch hunts, the Salem panic did not convict the stereotypical witch evey time. In Europe, witch hunts began when someone died unexpectedaly or something close to that happened and a person who fit the traditional view of a witch was blamed and executed. In Salem, the girls called out on people that cannot all be connected by one trait.
girls claming they have been bewitched
No, they were just the lastest in the long string of witch hunts in the Christian world over the centuries prior to 1692. In fact, it was one of the smallest.
Witches were regarded as supernatural agents of evil.
The Salem witch hunts happened in the English colony of Massachusetts, in what is now the USA.
Salem, Massachusetts
Unlike most European witch hunts, the Salem panic did not convict the stereotypical witch evey time. In Europe, witch hunts began when someone died unexpectedaly or something close to that happened and a person who fit the traditional view of a witch was blamed and executed. In Salem, the girls called out on people that cannot all be connected by one trait.
You probably mean Salem, in the eastern part of the USA.
girls claming they have been bewitched
No, they were just the lastest in the long string of witch hunts in the Christian world over the centuries prior to 1692. In fact, it was one of the smallest.
Witches were regarded as supernatural agents of evil.
No one in Salem was a witch.
The two big differences are: 1. Salem caused 20 executions. The Red Scare killed no one. 2. There were no witches in Salem but there were real communists in the world during the red scare.
You have made no sense. The Salem witch trials occurred in the colony of Massachusetts and was the latest in a string of witch hunts in Europe and America. It never spread to Europe or any other state.
Although there where many witch trials troughout history, perhaps the most famous one took place in Salem, Massachusets. EDIT: Other witch trials took place in Connecticutt, England, Scotland, Germany and France.
The same way the Salem witch hunts in 1695 honored killings of witches.