Salem Part 2
1692,
The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions that took place in 1692 in colonial Massachusetts, marking one of America's most notorious cases of mass hysteria. Accusations of witchcraft led to the execution of twenty people, mostly women, and the imprisonment of many more. The mass paranoia and fear-driven persecutions have since been extensively studied, but many mysteries remain. What were the real causes behind this outbreak of collective fear and condemnation, and could such a thing…
happen again in modern society?
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