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Who is Ann Glover? The Irish woman who was the last 'witch' to be hanged during the Salem Witch Trials

Ann "Goody" Glover was an Irish Catholic who moved to Boston - at the time, part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony - with her ...

Salem’s witches were pardoned, but Britain’s weren’t. There’s now a movement to change that

While the women accused in the infamous Salem witch trials in colonial America have long since been pardoned, the convictions of hundreds of British women executed under similar laws officially still ...
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What The Evidence Really Says About The Role Of Dogs At the Salem Witch Trials

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Nineteen people accused of witchcraft ...