Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Salem, MA - A Tough Place in 1692 !
From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging.
Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges.
Hundreds of others faced accusations of witchcraft. Dozens languished in jail for months without trials. Then, almost as soon as it had begun, the hysteria that swept through Puritan Massachusetts ended.
Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges.
