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The Salem Witch Trials : 17th Century Most Infamous Trials
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The Salem Witch Trials : 17th Century Most Infamous Trials
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The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings & prosecutions of people accused of practicing witchcraft in the colonial state of Massachusetts.
It was held between February 1692 to all the way May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of 20 people with 14 of them women.
All but 1 executed by hanging and other 5 peoples died in the prison including 2 infant children.
Despite being generally known as the Salem Witch Trials, the preliminary hearings in 1692 were conducted in several towns:
1. Salem Village (now Danvers)
2. Salem Town
3. Ipswich
4. Andover
2. Salem Town
3. Ipswich
4. Andover
The most infamous trials were conducted by the Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 in Salem Town.
While the witch trials had begun to fade out across much of Europe by the mid-17th century, they still continue at the border of Europe & in the American Colonies.
The events in 1692/93 in Salem became a brief outburst of a sort of hysteria in the New World.
