Posted on 05/27/2022 9:55:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The last Salem “witch” to be exonerated has been pardoned more than 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft as part of the Salem Witch Trials.
On Thursday, Massachusetts lawmakers exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr of witchcraft, making her the last “witch” to be pardoned.
Between 1692 and 1693, dozens of women were hanged for witchcraft and hundreds more were accused of being “witches” at the trials in Salem.
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The technology has improved. Back then, you could only determine if someone was a witch by submerging them in water. Now we can run a DNA test.
Elizabeth Johnson Jr... "Junior" ????
i thought the name was Hillary
The punch line should be: “Now we can run a DNA test to see how closely she is related to Hillary.” :)
Elizabeth Johnson Jr... “Junior” ????
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No biologists around back then to determine sex of the accused.
It isn’t common, but women are occasionally jr., like FDR’s daughter Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Jr.
The latest form of Witchcraft is Climate Change. Just like all kinds of zany things would be blamed on Witches our so called scientific age blames all kinds of zany things on supposively man made Climate Change .
My uncle treated her direct descendant decades ago at McLean Hospital, the famous Boston legacy asylum … a full-on manic-depressive, probably quite like her forbearer.
And if the DNA floats…?
There are more active witch hunts today than there ever were 3 centuries ago. We just call it cancel culture today.
You could also see if they weighed the same as a duck.
I just hope she eats the Soft on Crime Soros Prosecutor’s kids first.
Yeah, she probably rolled over in her grave, and said, I told you A holes I wasn’t a witch. 🤭
Fourteen women were executed at Salem. That’s not dozens,
I’m descended from a sister of John Alden Jr. who was one of the last people accused of being a witch.
All total...around 20 were executed and I think six or seven were men. Now, that does not include the couple that died before their case came up or died in prison.
Witches back then could never imagine how liberal society is about them today, with college courses, voodoo phone apps, and elementary school satan clubs.
New evidence come to light?
This gives Democrats something to fill their time with rather than fixing things.
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