Salem witch hunt

Welcome to Salem, Witches: "Timeless" Season 2, Episode 4, Recapped #Smithsonian

The first person to be convicted for witchcraft crimes and hanged for it in colonial America was Alice ‘Alse’ Young, a resident of Windsor, Connecticut.

The Salem witch trials (1692–93) were a series of investigations and persecutions that caused 19 convicted ‘witches’ to be hanged and many other suspects to be imprisoned in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They were part of a long story of witch hunts that began in Europe in the 14th century.

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Witch Hunt, Salem, Halloween, Martin Wickstrom

This painting accurately depicts the pointing of fingers in 'The Crucible'. But, just as fingers were pointed in 'The Crucible', so were fingers pointed in 'The Scarlet Letter.' Everyone accused and pointed fingers at the accused in the Salem Witch Trials just as they had pointed fingers in 'The Crucible'. The only difference? In 'The Crucible', nearly every single accusation was false while in 'The Scarlet Letter' the accusation was true- Hester Prynne had truly committed adultery.

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Salem Witch Hunt Saga: The First Arrests

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Witch on the gallows.

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Salem Witch Trials

The Salem witch trials of the 1690s have an iconic place in American lore. But before the Salem witch hunt, there was the “Great Hunt”: a larger, more prolonged European phenomenon between 1560 and 1630 that led to 80,000 accusations and 40,000 deaths. Why’d it happen? Well, as with the Salem witch trials, there are a lot of theories. In the past, scholars have suggested that bad weather, decreased income, and weak government could have contributed to the witch trial period in Europe. But…