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The Afflicted identified the minister as the "Black Master" who was the high priest of the Salem Coven, adding the clichéd fuel to Ann's fanatical fire.

The witchcraft trials in Salem represent a very unique event in American history. Many people today have colonial ancestors who were somehow involved.

No one was safe from being accused. The youngest was four. Some were wealthy; others, indigent. There were the infirm. Faithful church attendees were not immune.

No one was safe from being accused of practicing witchcraft. The youngest was a child of four. Among the others were a Puritan minister and a prominent family's son.

The mass frenzy had to end. People lived in fear of being accused as a witch, in addition to anxiety of the alleged practitioners. Some good came out of the horror....

Salem, Massachusetts bustles each October, with Halloween visitors. The site of the Salem Witch Trials, Salem hosts many Halloween events and activities each year.

Ann Foster was among those who confessed to being a witch in 1692 at Salem, MA, and escaped being hanged. She died in jail months later.

Fourteen years after the Salem Witch Trials, Ann Putnam, Jr. admits that she wrongly accused many for witchcraft.

The Lace Reader is an enchanting mystery that gives readers a glimpse into the saga of one family of mystics and an understanding of the witch history that continues to p

Edward Bishop of Salem saw his wife hanged as a witch and his son and daughter-in-law jailed as witches for 37 weeks.

Some scholars assert that the mass hysteria in Massachusetts in the 17th century could have been triggered by a common fungus.

When compiling their genealogy Charles Austin and wife Carol found he descends from a confessed witch and she from the person who was bewitched.

Tituba is questioned and reveals some startling evidence concerning the devil and a little yellow bird.

Rebecca Nurse was a strong symbol of piety and motherhood. The community was shocked when her sentence was changed from not guilty to guilty.

Girls played at fortune telling, a Puritan sin, then showed signs of bewitchment. They named three witches, ushering in Massachusetts persecutions and mass hysteria.

Historians, psychologists, sociologists and others research and theorize as to what caused Salem's mass hysteria, a complex issue, involving many factors.

This is the fourth in a series of five indexes concerning the Salem Witch Trials.

Puritan men feared losing control of their women. So, in 1692, they found a way to control them; causing hysteria throughout their village.

Puritans believed witches existed and made pacts with the Devil. They had to be found, tried and executed. Suffer not a witch to live.... Not even in the Colonies.

Fun, yet historical attractions in Salem include The House of the Seven Gables, The Salem Witch Museum, The Witch House and The Witch Dungeon Museum.

Cotton Mather: Investigated cases of witchcraft in Salem and Boston and orders execution of George Burroughs for witchcraft.

This is the fifth in a series of five indexes concerning the Salem Witch Trials.

Cotton Mather, during the Salem Witch Trials, urges the acceptance of spectral evidence. George Burroughs is hanged for witchcraft.

Persecution of witches was most apparent in Colonial New England where strict Calvinist views formed the basis of a theocratic, Old Testament model that accepted witches.

Sarah Osborne becomes the enemy of Thomas Putnam Junior, father of Ann Putnam, Jr. one of the bewitched girls. Osborne is accused of witchcraft.

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.

This is the third index of articles concerning the Salem Witch Trials and other ghostly articles.

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.

Rebecca (Towne) Nurse, a tragic example of the Salem witchcraft hysteria, has thousands of living descendants.

You might be a witch if you are afraid of water, or can't say The Lord's Prayer correctly. Witches say it backward.

The Crucible is perhaps one of the more blatant instances of Miller's use of theatre to represent his socio-political views.

Bridget Bishop is accused of coming to men's beds and bewitching them.

Another woman confesses to witchcraft, revealing that there is a Witch Church in Salem Village with George Burroughs as its minister.

George Burroughs is arrested for witchcraft. It is suspected that he killed two previous wives, and maybe more.

George Burroughs has a dispute with John Putnam Senior over the ministers unpaid wages and other monies owed.

Numerous people are puzzled by what happened during the Burning Times, height of persecutions, and in more isolated historical occurrences. Hypothetical answers exist.

Upon becoming a witch, the person is given an animal as a familiar, and can kill or harm both humans or animals.

Bridget Bishop, Elizabeth Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, and others are convicted of witchcraft in Salem and hung on Gallows Hill.

Science proved eating contaminated rye bread can result in this disease. Evidence tends to support the theory that this was the primary cause of Salem's witchcraft mania.

Two pairs of themes in Hawthorne's short story Young Goodman Brown are those of guilt versus innocence and good versus evil.

Salem Village, like other haunted places, is the site of tragedies and killings. Some of the ghosts are directly tied to the witch persecution; others aren't.

After Tituba's amazing confession specters and flying women are seen throughout Salem.

Lots of people have witches hanging from their family Tree. There's even a lineage society for female descendants of colonial American witches.

A biography of Martha Carrier, one of the alleged "witches" killed during the Salem Witch Trials. She boldly proclaimed her innocence as those around her confessed.

Martha Cory is jailed for bewitching Ann Putnam, Sr. Some thirty-nine people are accused for witchcraft and sent to jail.

More girls are bewitched and three women are accused and apprehended to be examined to determine if they are witches.

Tituba swears that Osborne and Good bewitched the girls and wanted her to cut off Ann Putnam's head.

Lives of Writers of the New World were often predetermined by Old World traditions. Hawthorne's family history was based on the tradition of a curse.

This is part one of an index of articles concerned with the Salem Witch Trials and the supernatural.

In Salem Village, more specters of suspected witches are seen. Ann Putnam, Jr. cries out against Elizabeth Proctor and Martha Cory.