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Salem Witch Trial Genealogy
The witchcraft trials in Salem represent a very unique event in American history. Many people today have colonial ancestors who were somehow involved.
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Salem Witch Trial Index
This is the fourth in a series of five indexes concerning the Salem Witch Trials.
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Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather: Investigated cases of witchcraft in Salem and Boston and orders execution of George Burroughs for witchcraft.
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Ann Putnam, Jr. Confesses Guilt
Fourteen years after the Salem Witch Trials, Ann Putnam, Jr. admits that she wrongly accused many for witchcraft.
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Cotton Mather Condemns Witches
Cotton Mather, during the Salem Witch Trials, urges the acceptance of spectral evidence. George Burroughs is hanged for witchcraft.
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Osborne Incurs Wrath
Sarah Osborne becomes the enemy of Thomas Putnam Junior, father of Ann Putnam, Jr. one of the bewitched girls. Osborne is accused of witchcraft.
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A Ghoulish Index of Articles
This is the third index of articles concerning the Salem Witch Trials and other ghostly articles.
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A Witch Cake Baked in Salem
Tituba, the Indian slave belonging to Samuel Parris, bakes a witch cake using the urine of two bewitched girls. It is then fed to the family dog.
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Are You a Witch?
You might be a witch if you are afraid of water, or can't say The Lord's Prayer correctly. Witches say it backward.
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Bridget Bishop Bewitching Men
Bridget Bishop is accused of coming to men's beds and bewitching them.
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Burroughs Accused of Witchcraft
Another woman confesses to witchcraft, revealing that there is a Witch Church in Salem Village with George Burroughs as its minister.
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Burroughs Suspected of Murder
George Burroughs is arrested for witchcraft. It is suspected that he killed two previous wives, and maybe more.
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Burroughs’ Debts Are Settled
George Burroughs has a dispute with John Putnam Senior over the ministers unpaid wages and other monies owed.
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Cursed Be the Salem Poor
Upon becoming a witch, the person is given an animal as a familiar, and can kill or harm both humans or animals.
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Death on Gallows Hill
Bridget Bishop, Elizabeth Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, and others are convicted of witchcraft in Salem and hung on Gallows Hill.
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Hysteria and Terror in Salem
After Tituba's amazing confession specters and flying women are seen throughout Salem.
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Martha Cory Jailed for Witchcraft
Martha Cory is jailed for bewitching Ann Putnam, Sr. Some thirty-nine people are accused for witchcraft and sent to jail.
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More Bewitchings in Salem Village
More girls are bewitched and three women are accused and apprehended to be examined to determine if they are witches.
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More for the Salem Dungeon
Tituba swears that Osborne and Good bewitched the girls and wanted her to cut off Ann Putnam's head.
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More Salem Witch Denials
Tituba is questioned and reveals some startling evidence concerning the devil and a little yellow bird.
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October, the Bewitching Month
This is part one of an index of articles concerned with the Salem Witch Trials and the supernatural.
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Proctor and Cory Accused in Salem
In Salem Village, more specters of suspected witches are seen. Ann Putnam, Jr. cries out against Elizabeth Proctor and Martha Cory.
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Samuel Parris Points First Finger
Parris points the way towards the Salem Witch Hunt by blasting Tituba, Mary Sibley, and others for baking a witch cake.
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Sarah Good
Sarah Good, an ill-tempered woman living in poverty in Salem Village is accused of witchcraft and of bewitching several young girls.
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Sarah Osborne of Salem Village
Sarah Osborne of Salem Village, having gone from prosperous to poverty is accused of witchcraft.
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Sundays in Salem, Massachusetts
For the children of Salem Village Sundays consisted of sitting still on hard benches through two three-hour sermons. They had to work hard, pray, and have no fun.
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Telling Fortunes in Salem
Salem Village girls are telling fortunes with egg whites until one white takes on the form of a coffin. Tituba tells them Bible stories laced with voodoo.
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The Conviction of Giles Cory
Giles Cory is accused of witchcraft. He refuses to be tried and is pressed to death in order to get him to confess.
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The Devil Walked Among Them
The people of Salem, Massachusetts, like centuries of populations before them well believed in the power of witchcraft.
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The Hanging of George Burroughs
George Burroughs is sentenced to hang for witchcraft along with other accused and sentenced witches.
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The Haunting Month
This is part two of an index of articles concerned with the Salem Witch Trials and the supernatural. Also there are some links to some spooky articles about the Wild West
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The Reverend George Burroughs
The Reverend George Burroughs, years prior to the Witch Trials, becomes pastor at Salem Village Church. When his wages are withheld he leaves.
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The Reverend Samuel Parris
The Reverend Samuel Parris of Salem Village beleaguers his parishioners to love him and bring him free firewood. He is obsessed with always seeing evil.
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The Salem Bewitchings Begin
Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams begin having violent fits. A doctor declares that they have been bewitched.
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The Salem Inquisition Begins
The Salem Witch questioning begins with John Hathorne grilling Sarah Good, in hopes that she will confess to witchcraft. Her own husband gives the damning statements.
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The Witch Hunt Spreads
More people are hung for witchcraft. The hunt spreads to other communities. Mather doubts the "validity of spectral evidence."
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Tituba’s Amazing Evidence
Tituba is questioned concerning witchcraft and tells of hairy creatures, winged women, and being urged to cut of Ann Putnam's head.
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Witch Work of Bridget Bishop
Bridget Bishop is suspected of bewitching a boy and clothing witch dolls. A man attempts to bewitch Bishop.
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Witches
Be it witches, demons, sorcerors, or the occult, strange and unexplained happenings have been told of throughout history, and here is a collection of their stories.
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Bridget Bishop of Salem
Bridget Bishop of Salem: Accused of witchcraft, practicing black magic, bewitching men and children, making money disappear.
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On the Road in Massachusetts!
Continuing with my theme of unusual locations, this time we're visiting Salem and Sturbridge, MA and their beautiful bed and breakfasts.
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Growing Up in Salem, Massachusetts
Life in Salem Village for youngsters: Long Puritan church services, acting as adults, accusing others of witchcraft.
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The Girls of Salem Village
Salem Village talk concerns a scarlet bodice, a bright turbans, and the charter. Young girls begin gathering in the Parris' kitchen.
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The New Massachusetts Charter
Increase Mather returns from London with the new charter. Now accused witches can be tried, rather than merely held chained to prison walls.
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Tituba, the Salem Slave
Tituba: Indian slave of Samuel Parris in Salem Village tells fortunes and bakes a witch cake. Two girls declared bewitched.
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Those Persistent Quakers
In spite of dire punishments handed out to Quakers in Massachusetts, the Quakers continue to migrate to America.
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Jewels for Christmas from Avi, Susan Albert and Raab Associates
Reviews of popular books for the Christmas season by well-known and not so known children's authors. Interview with AVI and Susan Wittig Albert.
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Children Beware of Demons
The children of Salem Village lived a strict and restricted life, controlled by adults. Cotton Mather warns all to be aware of demons among them.
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Death by Rye Bread
Hallucinations, violent retching, distorted bodies, wild dancing, burning of the extremities before they turn black and fall off. This mysterious plague killed thousands before the discovery of a fungus among us.
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Ghosts of Hawthorne Hotel Salem MA
New England Coastal City famed for the Salem Witch Trials and a rich Maritime History and claims of paranormal activities.
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