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Around February 25: Mary Sibly (or Sibley), a neighbor of the Parris family, instructs John Indian, the husband of Tituba, to make a "witch cake" of rye meal and the girls' urine to feed to a dog in order to discover who is bewitching the girls, according to English folk "white magic" practices.
This is a list of people associated with the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between March 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of whom were women.
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men).
Hanged during the Salem witch trials. Rebecca Nurse: 1621–1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Hanged during the Salem witch trials: Sarah Good: 1655–1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: One of the first to be convicted in the Salem witch trials. Samuel Wardwell: 1643–1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Hanged during the Salem witch trials. Sarah ...
John was born in Salem in August 1641; his father's surviving records give the date as August 4, but the records of the First Church of Salem indicate he was baptized on August 2. John married in Salem, March 22, 1674/5, Ruth Gardner, granddaughter of " Old Planter " Thomas Gardner , a settler of Salem who arrived as part of colonization ...
In the years since the witch trials, the unfairly-accused have been exonerated and, in 1957, Massachusetts issued a formal apology for the trials, stating that the proceedings were "shocking" and ...
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