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Sep 9, 2024 · The events in Salem in 1692 were but one chapter in a long story of witch hunts that began in Europe between 1300 and 1330 and ended in the late 18th century (with the last known execution for witchcraft taking place in Switzerland in 1782). The Salem trials occurred late in the sequence, after the abatement of the European witch-hunt fervour, which peaked from the 1580s and ’90s to the ...
Nov 4, 2011 · Timeline: Salem Witch Trials. January 1692 Strange symptoms. February 1692 Accusations start. March 1692 Accusations spread. April 1692 First man accused. May 1692 Osborne dies in jail. June ...
Jan 24, 2017 · For those unfamiliar with the Salem Witch Trials—the killing of 14 women and six men between the years of 1692 and 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts—however, the events are no ghost story. The years of killing, which began in the spring of 1692 and continued until September 1693, were not unprecedented for the English colonies; the 17th century ...
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). One other man, Giles Corey, died under ...
Oct 24, 2022 · T.H. Matteson, Examination of a Witch, 1853 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between early 1692 and mid-1693. More than 200 people ...
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Sep 9, 2024 · Salem witch trials - Hysteria, Accusations, Executions: On May 27, 1692, after weeks of informal hearings accompanied by imprisonments, Sir William Phips (also spelled Phipps), the governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, interceded and ordered the convening of an official Court of Oyer (“to hear”) and Terminer (“to decide”) in Salem Town. Presided over by William Stoughton, the colony ...
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Apr 13, 2021 · Thomkins H. Matteson (Public Domain) The Salem Witch Trials were a series of legal proceedings in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692-1693 resulting in the deaths of 20 innocent people accused of witchcraft and the vilification of over 200 others based, initially, on the reports of young girls who claimed to have been harmed by the spells of certain ...
