Almanac: The Salem witch trials 01:52. Decades before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, Alse Young was killed at the gallows in Connecticut, becoming the first person on record to ...

SALEM, MA - SEPTEMBER 26: Visitors walk through the Salem Witch Memorial in Salem ... said in a statement a total of 34 victims were indicted on witchcraft charges in Connecticut during the 1600s.

11 executed in 1600s Connecticut witch trials absolved by lawmakers. Published: May. 26, 2023, 7:12 p.m. FILE — Beth Caruso, author and co-founder of the CT Witch Trial Exoneration Project, ...

Connecticut's trials began decades before the more famous Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts, which saw more than 200 people accused of practicing the devil's magic and 20 executed between 1692 ...

A resident of Windsor, Connecticut, since 1630, she was among 12 people, mostly women, convicted in witch trials in the colony in the 1600s. Eleven of the 12 were hanged.

Connecticut lawmakers have pardoned the women and men who were accused, convicted and executed for witchcraft in the 1600s.. House Joint Resolution 34, which was adopted by the state Senate ...

370 Years Later, Connecticut Is Exonerating Accused Witches : 1A In May, legislators in Connecticut passed a resolution to exonerate people accused of being witches in the seventeenth century ...

Almanac: The Salem witch trials 01:52. In 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts - the second in New England - to be executed for witchcraft, decades before the ...

In fact, the first witch-hanging in all the English colonies happened in 1647 when Alse Young was hanged in Hartford. Now, there is a movement to have her, and those who were convicted, exonerated ...

‘Witch bottles‘ filled with nails and teeth were once thought to heal the cursed ”Keep it hidden, keep it warm“ was the instruction for these capsules of anti-evil from 17th century England.

Witches are having a moment in Ukraine. Now they have taken center stage in a dark musical comedy titled The Witch of Konotop, ... It takes place in the 1600s and follows the main character, ...