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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => History => Topic started by: rangerrebew on November 03, 2017, 01:33:44 pm
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Archaeology at Salem Says We’re Thinking About Witches and Witch Hunts All Wrong
By Meghan Bartels On 10/31/17 at 7:50 AM
Much of Americans’ conceptions about witchcraft were born in the year 1692, when, in the midst of a frontier war and refugee crisis, 20 people were executed one summer after refusing to confess to practicing witchcraft. Their trials still capture the American imagination, inspiring a flurry of complaints from powerful men that they or their friends are the targets of “witch hunts.”
http://www.newsweek.com/archaeology-salem-says-were-thinking-about-witches-and-witch-hunts-all-wrong-694200