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

Tituba: Indian slave of Samuel Parris in Salem Village tells fortunes and bakes a witch cake. Two girls declared bewitched.

Tituba is questioned concerning witchcraft and tells of hairy creatures, winged women, and being urged to cut of Ann Putnam's head.

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

In the year 1692 the Massachussetts colony experienced a mass hysteria brought on by fear and suspicion. The Salem Witchcraft Trials, in the end, would claim 20 lives.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Salem Village talk concerns a scarlet bodice, a bright turbans, and the charter. Young girls begin gathering in the Parris' kitchen.

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.

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

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

Sarah Good, an ill-tempered woman living in poverty in Salem Village is accused of witchcraft and of bewitching several young girls.

Sarah Osborne of Salem Village, having gone from prosperous to poverty is accused of witchcraft.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Francis Scott Key is inspired to write the "Star Spangled Banner" during the attack on Fort McHenry.

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

Gabriel's Plot to free slaves is halted by bad weather. Someone informs on them, causing leaders to be hung or sold.

George Burroughs is sentenced to hang for witchcraft along with other accused and sentenced witches.

Parris points the way towards the Salem Witch Hunt by blasting Tituba, Mary Sibley, and others for baking a witch cake.

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

For genealogists, there is a serious side to all of the Halloween fun around witches. Thousands of Americans descend from ancestors wrongly accused of witchcraft.

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 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....