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SALEM WITCH TRIALS
Gallows Hill, Salem, Mass., 1949
THE
CONTENTS
THE CLIMATE OF FEAR:
THEN
witches
NOW
those
AND
were
In the past,
accused of Satanism who stood
uncomfortably apart from society.
Today, the role of the outsider
has evolved.
INTRODU C TIO N
4
EUROPEAN ORIGINS
A widespread moral panic about
Satanic witches engulfed Europe
over 300 years during the early
modern period.
PA R T ON E
10
THE SALEM
WITCH TRIALS
The tragic events that swept
through Salem Village between
January and October in 1692 had
long-lasting effects on the fragile
Puritan community.
PA R T TWO
30
GALLOWS HILL, SALEM
On the morning of June 10,
1692, the first woman in the
Salem witch trials died by
hanging. Until 2016, it was
believed to have been on this
infamous hill. Scholars and
researchers have now deter-
mined that the victims were
hanged in the shadow of this
hill, on a rocky crevice known
as Proctor’s Ledge.
THE DEVIL IN
MASSACHUSETTS
of
Time and progress erased many
the original buildings in Salem.
In 1945 and 1949, a pair of photog-
raphers visited Salem to capture
key locations.
PHOTO GA LLERY
58
MODERN WITCHCRAFT
An investigation into today’s Wiccan
practitioners and the depiction of
witches on television and screen—
including Arthur Miller’s iconic
The Crucible.
PA RT TH R E E
66
SALEM
years later, the
TODAY
More than 300
town of Salem Village, renamed
Danvers roughly 60 years after
the trials that made it famous,
has embraced its history.
C ON C LU SI O N
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