Hundreds of others faced accusations of witchcraft dozens languished in jail for months without trials until the hysteria that swept through Puritan Massachusetts subsided. Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges. Words written by John Greenleaf Whittier and inscribed on a monument marking the grave of Rebecca Nurse, one of the condemned "witches" of Salem.įrom 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. The world, redeemed from superstition's sway, When all about thee Owned the hideous lie! O Christian Martyr Who for Truth could die
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