At the 300th anniversary events in 1992 to commemorate the victims of the trials, a park was dedicated in Salem and a memorial in Danvers. In November 2001, an act passed by the Massachusetts legislature exonerated five people,[5]
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
I was reading a book in Arlington's Central Library.....about historians now look at this a little different..............something about the border with Maine..........maybe more Indian territories.......or wolves..............which would be more prevalent in Canada.Maine is next to Canada..............Mane Grill........WE are the main grill for vampires and werewolves..
The episode is one of Colonial America's most notorious cases of mass hysteria.
It has been used in political rhetoric and popular literature as a
vivid cautionary tale about the dangers of isolationism, religious
extremism, false accusations, and lapses in due process.[3] It was not unique, but a Colonial American example of the much broader phenomenon of witch trials in the early modern period,
which took place also in Europe. Many historians consider the lasting
effects of the trials to have been highly influential in subsequent United States history. According to historian George Lincoln Burr, "the Salem witchcraft was the rock on which the theocracy shattered."[4]
At the 300th anniversary events in 1992 to commemorate the victims of the trials, a park was dedicated in Salem and a memorial in Danvers. In November 2001, an act passed by the Massachusetts legislature exonerated five people,[5]
At the 300th anniversary events in 1992 to commemorate the victims of the trials, a park was dedicated in Salem and a memorial in Danvers. In November 2001, an act passed by the Massachusetts legislature exonerated five people,[5]
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