This week on Hashtag History, we are talking about the Salem Witch Trials which will forever go down in History as one of the craziest, most bizarre, and most tragic incidents in colonial history. Over the years of 1692 and 1693, over two hundred people were accused of witchcraft with over twenty of them being executed for the crime and five others dying while behind bars. These accusations came as a result of mass hysteria of demonic possession swept across colonial Massachusetts. Today those accused have been annulled of their guilty verdicts but that doesn’t change History and that doesn’t change the culture, the climate, and the deep roots of bitterness that still reside in Massachusetts to this day.

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