She was thrown in jail but was later released after the chaos and paranoia died down. According to a 2002 book called The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege by ...

The pivotal accuser at the trials, Tituba, would go down in history ... As often as we have revisited Salem—on the page, on the stage and on the screen—we have failed to unpack a crucial ...

So if the accused plead guilty, they got jail time. If they plead innocent ... accused and executed for witchcraft during the ...

the Witch House is the only structure in Salem still standing that has direct ties to the 1692 witch trials. Because of this, it is a crucial stop on any Salem itinerary (and included on many of ...

Along the way, tourgoers will pass by more than a dozen historical locations including the Salem Witch Trials Memorial, the Old Town Hall and the Old Witch Jail. Reviewers praise the guides for ...

In Salem Witch Trial Conspiracy, join author Katherine Howe ... Of the over one hundred people charged with witchcraft, five died in jail, 19 died on the gallows and one was crushed to death.

For all the notoriety which the judgment of history has fastened upon the Salem witch-hunts, the true story of the trials is a little-known one. It is an intensely dramatic story, numbering among ...

The last proceedings of the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts ended in 1693. But 331 years later, religious witch hunts remain a common — if not well-publicized — occurrence in countries ...