Case: GG-2026-011
Status: Historic
Documentation rating: A
Location: Salem, Massachusetts
The Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692–93 centered on Salem Village (now Danvers) and neighboring Essex County towns in Massachusetts. Accusations of witchcraft led to arrests, examinations, and trials under colonial law; nineteen people were hanged, one man was pressed to death, and others died in jail. The episode is among the best-documented witchcraft panics in North American history. The legal and social record is firm; whether any of the accused practiced harmful magic — or whether “spectral” evidence described real harm — remains a question of belief and interpretation, not something this…
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