1692-93 Salem Witch trials

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Salem Witch trials
Type 1 Mass hysteria, show trial
From 1692
To 1693
Place Massachusetts
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"Witch" trials and convictions in and near Salem, Massachusetts.

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"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, 19 of whom were found guilty and executed by hanging (14 women and 5 men). One other man, Giles Corey, was crushed to death for refusing to plead, and at least five people died in jail. It was the deadliest witch hunt in the history of colonial North America.

Twelve other women had previously been executed in Massachusetts and Connecticut during the 17th century. Despite being generally known as the Salem witch trials, the preliminary 1692 hearings were conducted in several towns among which Salem was included, such as Danvers (then known as Salem Village), Ipswich, and Andover. The most infamous trials were conducted by the Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 in Salem Town.

The episode is one of Colonial America's most notorious cases of mass hysteria. It has been used in political rhetoric and popular literature as a vivid cautionary tale about the dangers of isolationism, religious extremism, false accusations, and lapses in due process."[MSM 1]

"(September 22,) 1692 Last people hanged for witchcraft (8) in the US, 20 hanged overall during Salem witch trials"[MSM 2]

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