Post by mariarosecalico on Oct 25, 2009 11:22:07 GMT -8
’If it harms none, do what you will…’
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in Essex, Suffolk and Middlesex counties of colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693. Over 150 people were arrested and imprisoned, with even more accused but not formally pursued by the authorities. The two courts convicted twenty-nine people of the capital felony of witchcraft. Nineteen of the accused, fourteen women and five men, were hanged. One man (Giles Corey) who refused to enter a plea was crushed to death under heavy stones in an attempt to force him to do so. At least five more of the accused died in prison.
Despite being generally known as the "Salem" witch trials, the preliminary hearings in 1692 were conducted in a variety of towns across the province: Salem Village, Ipswich, Andover and Salem Town. The best-known trials were conducted by the Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 in Salem Town. All twenty-six who went to trial before this court were convicted. The four sessions of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1693, held in Salem Village, but also in Ipswich, Boston and Charlestown, produced only three convictions in the thirty-one witchcraft trials it conducted.
When the Salem Witch Tails began, everyone thought that all of them were dead. One, however, escaped her fate and journeyed to a land where fairies and other magical beings existed. She lived there and started a family with one of the most powerful beings in that realm. As the family grew, so did their abilities. For hundreds of years, the family lived there in peace until one of the descendents turned towards the evil ways and moved back to the human realm which is now modern day Massachusetts .
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