In 1692 and 1693, the Salem witch trials were held in northeastern Massachusetts and led to the prosecution of more than 150 people.
The Salem witch trials were the largest witchcraft outbreak in American history, resulting from a perfect storm of catastrophes.. The center of the trials was Salem Village, or the modern day town of Danvers, according to Salem State University history professor and author of "A Storm of Witchcraft" Emerson Baker.
A young woman accused of witchcraft in Salem Village, Massachusetts, tries to defend herself in front of Puritan ministers in 1692. The frenzy that fueled the witch trials started in Salem Village - now called Danvers - and at the parsonage whose foundation remains. Such a devastating weather pattern was caused by something much larger and more widespread than what the people of Salem might have guessed.
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