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Statistics is just one way to tell the tale of the infamous Salem witch trials. In just 16 months between February 1692 and May 1693, up to 200 people—mostly women—were accused of practicing ...
While Salem is famous for its witch trials, Connecticut’s history is ... But their stories were just the beginning. “During the Hartford Witchcraft Panic of 1662 to 1663, 11 people were ...
By memorializing witch trials, in Salem and around the world, modern communities are beginning the difficult process of reckoning with their own darkest tendencies. Descendants stand before the ...
Describing the infamous Salem witch trials, she points out that by 1693 ... Trials like this have a historic beginning just a few hundred years ago and, as such, will one day have a historic ...
Ballet 314 co-founder Robert Poe pulled from "The Crucible" and "I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem" craft a new retelling of the witch trial saga.
Centuries ago, an eyewitness of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials wrote a book ... prominent and very influential and, at the beginning, he supported the trials. His support would have been influential ...
He says the American horror tradition started even before there was an America, with early English settlers and their suspicions that led to the Salem witch trials. DAUBER: You have these puritans.