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Samuel Parris (uncle) Elizabeth "Betty" Parris (cousin) Abigail Williams (born c. 1681, date of death unknown) [2] was an 11- or 12-year-old girl who, along with nine-year-old Betty Parris, was among the first of the children to falsely accuse their neighbors of witchcraft in 1692; these accusations eventually led to the Salem witch trials .
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, died under ...
Executed (10 June 1692) Exonerated (31 October 2001) Bridget Bishop ( c. 1632 – 10 June 1692) was the first person executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in 1692. Nineteen were hanged, and one, Giles Corey, was pressed to death. Altogether, about 200 people were tried.
In early modern Scotland, in between the early 16th century and the mid-18th century, judicial proceedings concerned with the crimes of witchcraft ( Scottish Gaelic: buidseachd) took place as part of a series of witch trials in Early Modern Europe. In the late middle age there were a handful of prosecutions for harm done through witchcraft, but ...
George Booth, age 21 and living in Salem. William Bragg, age 8 and living in Salem. Mary Fellows-Brown, age about 46 and living in Reading. Phebe Chandler, age 12 and living in Andover. Sarah Churchill/Churchwell, age about 25 and living in Salem Village/Danvers. John Cole, age about 52 and living in Lynn.
October 16: Villagers vow to drive Parris out of Salem and stop contributing to his salary. Outbreak of accusations 1692. January 20: Eleven-year-old Abigail Williams and nine-year-old Elizabeth Parris begin behaving much as the Goodwin children acted three years earlier. Soon Ann Putnam Jr. and other Salem girls begin acting similarly.
The History Channel's In Search of History (1996–2000) television series aired the episode "Salem Witch Trials" (1998). In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode " Gingerbread ", Buffy Summers , Willow Rosenberg and Amy Madison are sentenced to burn at the stake after the apparent sacrifice of two children in an occult ritual.
Updated March 5, 2024 at 1:25 PM. Morgan Lieberman. Jesse Williams was surprised to learn that one of his ancestors played a significant role in the Salem witch trials in a Season 10 episode of ...