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A Virginia witch trial loosely based on the story of Joan Wright is featured in a 2017 episode of the British drama television series Jamestown. [28] In 2019, an original play, "Season of the Witch" premiered at the Jamestown Settlement. The play is a dramatic retelling of the witch trials in Virginia, with a focus on the story of Wright. [14]
In Sweden in 1669 a large number of children were included in a witch hunt and in Würzburg as in Salem in 1692, children were the focus of witch hunts. [8] In the early seventeenth century, the territory of Würzburg was a prevalent actor in persecuting children. [7] Over 40 children were executed due to being accused of witchcraft during this ...
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft; Hanson, J. W. (1848). The History of the Town of Danvers, from its Earliest Settlement to 1848, published by the author, printed at the Courier Office, Danvers, Massachusetts; Hill, Frances. A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials; Jackson, Shirley. The Witchcraft of Salem ...
Abigail Williams (born c. 1681, date of death unknown) [2] was an 11- or 12-year-old girl who, along with nine-year-old Betty Parris, was among the first of the children to falsely accuse their neighbors of witchcraft in 1692; these accusations eventually led to the Salem witch trials.
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 ...
The Lords of Salem (2012), a horror film written and directed by Rob Zombie about a coven of 300-year-old witches who were secretly imprisoned and tortured during the Salem witch trials. ParaNorman (2012) animated film takes place in a Massachusetts town that in 1712 held witch trials and convicted and executed an innocent girl as a witch.
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"Hocus Pocus" was released in 1993, but fans of the Halloween film may have missed these details. There are several references to Salem, Massachusetts, and its history with witchcraft. "Hocus ...