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A brief history of the Salem witch trials
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAn 1876 illustration of a Salem courtroom. | Wikimedia Commons The Salem witch trials took place in a period of New England history when women were...
Hundreds of Salem witch trials documents get new home
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHundreds of court documents from the 1692 Salem witch trials are being transferred from the Salem...
The 3 Biggest Myths About the Salem Witch Trials
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn this 1869 oil painting 'Witch Hill (The Salem Martyr)' by Thomas Satterwhite Noble, the young woman posing as a condemned witch was a descendent of...
Woman Convicted In Massachusetts' Salem Witch Trials Finally Exonerated After 329 Years
Oxygen via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe last-known Massachusetts woman to still be legally classified a witch has been pardoned, more...
Jesse Williams reacts to learning ancestor played major role in Salem witch trials
TODAY via Yahoo News· 4 months agoJesse Williams was surprised to learn that one of his ancestors played a significant role in the...
Group seeks to clear names of all accused, convicted or executed for witchcraft in Massachusetts
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoIn 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts — the second in New...
Connecticut may exonerate accused witches centuries later
WFXT via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDecades before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, Alse Young was killed at the...
Sarah Jessica Parker played a witch in 'Hocus Pocus.' Then she discovered her real-life ties to the...
Yahoo Celebrity via AOL· 7 months agoSarah Jessica Parker is connected to the Salem Witch Trials. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News;...
How a bad batch of bread might have led to the Salem witch trials
Columbia Daily Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn January 1692, a 9-year-old girl named Elizabeth Parris and an 11-year-old girl named Abigail...
Why people accused women of being witches
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIllustration from “The History of Witches and Wizards, 1720.” | “The History of Witches and Wizards, 1720.” The witch panics that occurred throughout...