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, nineteen of whom were found guilty and executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other...
Thirteen women and two men were executed. Some twenty years later, the Salem witch trials occurred in 1692–93, culminating in about 72 trials and 20 executions. Trials occurred between February 1692 and May 1693. Though generally known as the Salem witch trials, the preliminary hearings in ...
The first to be formally executed was Bridget Bishop. She was perceived as a promiscuous woman and a gossip. (Clearly, she must be a witch!) Though she pleaded innocent, the Special Court of Oyer and Terminer—the court set up to deal with the witch trials—found her guilty. On June 1...
The O'Reilly Updatecan be heard on weekdays at noon on WBSM. Who Were the Victims of the Salem Witch Trials? These twenty innocent people were executed in Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Gallery Credit:Meg Bridget Bishop sphraner Bridget Bishop Click here to learn more. ...
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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, nineteen of whom were found guilty and executed by ...
She was executed in Germany on December 30, 1663. A series of proceedings involving over two hundred people accused of witchcraft in Massachusetts occurred between February 1692 and May 1693 and became known as the Salem Witch Trials. Thirty of them were found guilty of the charge and sentenced...
000 were executed; many of the others facedbanishment, imprisonment, orcorporal punishment. The actual method of execution varied. In much of continental Europe and inScotland, the common practice was toburn accused witches at the stake, although they were often strangled orgarrotedfirst. ...
In 1692, accused witches were charged and executed for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.Courtesy Sarah Lemire Whether you call them shamen, alchemists, herbalists, Wiccans or witches, the practice of witchcraft, by any name, has been around almost as long as humans have. ...
Decades before the infamousSalem witch trialsin Massachusetts, Alse Young was killed at the gallows in Connecticut, becoming the first person on record to be executed in the American colonies for witchcraft. The Windsor town clerk registered the death on May 26, 1647, in a diary entry that rea...