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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. More than 200 people were accused.
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.
About eighty people were accused of practicing witchcraft in a witch-hunt that lasted throughout New England from 1647 to 1663. Thirteen women and two men were executed. [ 4 ] The Salem witch trials followed in 1692–93, culminating in the executions of 20 people.
The Salem witchcraft trial of 1878, [1] [2] [3] also known as the Ipswich witchcraft trial [4] and the second Salem witch trial, [5] was an American civil case held in May 1878 in Salem, Massachusetts, in which Lucretia L. S. Brown, an adherent of the Christian Science religion, accused fellow Christian Scientist Daniel H. Spofford of attempting to harm her through his "mesmeric" mental powers.
Seventy-eight percent of the people executed for witchcraft in New England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries were women. ... presumably, referring to the Salem witch trials, when 19 people ...
March 12: Ann Putnam Jr. accuses Martha Corey of witchcraft. March 19: Abigail Williams accuses Rebecca Nurse as a witch. March 21: Magistrates Hathorne and Corwin examine Martha Corey. [4] March 23: Salem Marshal Deputy Samuel Brabrook arrests four-year-old Dorothy Good. March 24: Corwin and Hathorne examine Rebecca Nurse [5] and Dorothy Good. [6]
In France alone, there were approximately 2000 witch trials between 1550 and 1700. ... were arrested and charged with suspicion of witchcraft in and around Salem, Massachusetts. ...
Bridget Bishop (née Magnus; c. 1632 – 10 June 1692) was the first person executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in 1692. Nineteen were hanged, and one, Giles Corey, was pressed to death.