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).

2011年11月4日 · The infamous Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local...

2025年2月8日 · Salem witch trials, (June 1692–May 1693), in American history, 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 (now Danvers, Massachusetts).

This is a list of people associated with the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between March 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of whom were women.

2015年8月19日 · The Salem Witch Trials took place in Salem in the Province of Massachusetts Bay between 1692-1693. Historians believe the accused witches were victims of mob mentality, mass hysteria and scapegoating.

2022年10月24日 · The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between early 1692 and mid-1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the devil’s magic —and 20 were...

The Salem Witch Museum is a museum in Salem, MA about the Witch Trials of 1692. The museum is based on the actual documents of the trials. Plan a visit to check out the scenes, and listen to the accurate narration from the history of the Salem Witch Hunt.

2025年2月8日 · 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.

Twenty-four people died during the Salem witch trials, though many more were accused of witchcraft. Find out what started the witch hunt of 1692. One freezing day in January of 1692,...

2024年11月7日 · The Salem Witch Trials. A deeper dive and spatial analysis into the infamous witch trials of Salem Village, Massachusetts that lasted from 1692-1693.