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The History Channel's In Search of History (1996–2000) television series aired the episode "Salem Witch Trials" (1998). In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode " Gingerbread ", Buffy Summers , Willow Rosenberg and Amy Madison are sentenced to burn at the stake after the apparent sacrifice of two children in an occult ritual.
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). One other man, Giles Corey, died under ...
Death. Criminal status. Executed (10 June 1692) Exonerated (31 October 2001) Bridget Bishop (née Magnus; c. 1632 – 10 June 1692) was the first person executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in 1692. Nineteen were hanged, and one, Giles Corey, was pressed to death. Altogether, about 200 people were tried.
Mercy Short, age 17 and living in Boston. Martha Sprague, age 16 and living in Andover. Timothy Swan, age 29 and living in Andover. He died on February 2, 1693. Mary Thorne, age about 14 and living in Ipswich. Mary Walcott, age 17 and living in Salem Village/Danvers. Mary Warren – age about 20 and living in Salem.
The Witch House. The Jonathan Corwin House, known locally as The Witch House, is a historic house museum in Salem, Massachusetts. It was the home of Judge Jonathan Corwin (1640–1718) and is one of the few structures still standing in Salem with direct ties to the Salem witch trials of 1692. Corwin bought the house in 1675 when he was 35 and ...
The Salem Witch Museum is a history museum located in downtown Salem, Massachusetts. It is located at 19 1/2 Washington Square North, across from Salem Common and it features the display of artifacts and archived information to the Salem Witch Trials of the 1690s. [1] [2] The building was built between 1844 and 1846 as the Unitarian East Church ...
7 (with Thorndike) 7 (with Bassett) Conviction (s) Witchcraft (posthumously overturned) John Proctor (October 9, 1632 – August 19, 1692) was a landowner in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He and his wife Elizabeth were tried and convicted of witchcraft as part of the Salem Witch Trials, whereupon he was hanged.
The Salem witch trials followed in 1692–93. These witch trials were the most famous in British North America and took place in the coastal settlements near Salem, Massachusetts. Prior to the witch trials, nearly three hundred men and women had been suspected of partaking in witchcraft, and nineteen of these people were hanged, and one was ...