[Beowulf9]

I went to Salem three times and still never made it to the Nurse home which is closed on weekends for tours.

I went to the top of the hill where they supposedly hung them but outside Walgreens got a very strong feeling looking at the little woods there.j

It’s that little woods where they believe now they were hung.

The Hawthorne has a wonderful Sunday brunch, btw.

But whatever you do avoid going on Halloween, it’s mobbed. Unless you want that Halloween experience. I found it distracting from wanting to get a real look at the place.

[sauropod]

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[libertylover]

Take heart! Abortion and pretending that homosexuality is normal won’t stand the test of time any more than witch hunts, slavery, and the holocaust.

And they all ultimately failed for the same reason: they go against nature. You may be able to outrun Mother Nature for a while, but Father Time WILL catch up to you.

[rfreedom4u]

I played John Proctor in my high school’s production of The Crucible.

[jerod]

Kind of reminds one of Democrats atrocious behavior... Whining and wailing like children.

[Trumpet 1]

The guy who started the Mormon religion had ancestors in Salem. Those ancestors testified against a woman who was then put to death.

[Boomer]

The Squad, Pelosi, Soros, and many other leftists would definitely be hanged as witches today if this practice was still in effect.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Went to Salem Mass when I was working in Boston and studied the incident out of fascination. How could this happen in a Puritan colony? Certainly Willian Bradford and co. would never have sanctioned such a debacle. Here is my interpretation after study...

A grieving mother and some foolish high standing young girls started messing around with necromancy during the extremely long and lonely New England winters (husbands often out on frontier guard against Indian attack.) They used a young servant girl from Barbados named Tituba who could communicate with familiar spirits (demons). Moses and Isaiah warned about this behavior in that Demons deceive and plague people, acting like they are dead relatives on the other side, when actually they are only demonic spirits.

The girls got in contact with the demons and started receiving lies (spectral evidence) about certain people in the town being witches (mostly poor and sickly people). They also began manifesting demonic type possession symptoms (what happens when you mess with demons!), blaming it on the poor and sickly townsfolks!?

Because the girls were from wealthier families in the community, the stupid church and city elders believed the demonized girls rather than the falsely accused people...who often could not go to church because of sickness and poverty.

This is why accusations must be challenged and tested. Where did you hear the accusation? Who told you? The girls should have been reprimanded for their stupidity and not believed! This type of crazy stuff still happens today in spiritual circles (though not resulting in death)...