At first glance, the Salem witch trials of 1692 seem like a putrid, horrifying excrescence straight out of medieval Europe. Not only were many innocents hanged, but one victim, Giles Corey ...

told The Salem News "Scott was found guilty at her trial and she was executed along with seven others in September of 1692." Trask said it is just the third time in a 50-year career he can recall ...

and Salem, where she was convicted of “covenanting with the devil” in January 1693. “(Johnson) remains the only condemned witch who was not exonerated from the 1692 witch trials in the last ...

It's an original court indictment of Margaret Scott, who was among the last of 19 people hanged during the hysteria of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. "This was one of two documents that were issued ...