A small girl answers the magistrates' questions, and the clerk writes down every word.
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THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS JAILED A 4-YEAR-OLD. HER MOTHER WAS HANGED.
In the winter of 1692, two girls in a minister's house began to suffer from something no doctor could name. Within months, a colony that prided itself on law and scripture had built a court to hunt the Devil, and filled its jails with neighbours, grandmothers and children. This is the story of Salem in 1692, and of a court that decided, one paper at a time, who would live and who would hang.
◈ The witch cake baked in a minister's house that turned a sickness into an accusation
◈ The jury that said not guilty, and the old woman who could not hear the question
◈ The town of Andover, where more people were accused than in Salem itself
◈ The farmer who refused to say a single word, and the stones they laid on him
Nineteen were hanged. Not one of them had confessed.
Atmospheric storytelling about the Salem witch trials of 1692, from Salem Village and Salem Town to Andover, Massachusetts.
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Sources & further reading
— Bernard Rosenthal et al. (eds.), Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt (2009)
— Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project, University of Virginia
— Emerson W. Baker, A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience (2014)
— Richard Hite, In the Shadow of Salem: The Andover Witch Hunt of 1692 (2018)
— Robert Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700)
— Deodat Lawson, A Brief and True Narrative (1692)
— The Diary of Samuel Sewall
— Rachel Christ-Doane, "The Untold Story of Dorothy Good," Salem Witch Museum (2024)
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