Posted on 07/19/2017 11:02:22 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Salem witch trial victims are honored in two different communities on the 325th anniversary of the tragedy
Two communities in Massachusetts where 20 people suspected of witchcraft were put to death in 1692 honored the victims on Wednesday.
The ceremonies in Salem and Danvers comes 325 years to the day when Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse and Sarah Wildes were hanged at a site in Salem known as Proctor's Ledge.
It was the first of three mass hangings at the spot. The 20th victim was crushed to death.
Salem unveiled a memorial at noon on Wednesday dedicated to the 19 victims who were hanged, promising never to forget the tragedy.
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One might look upon the Salem trials as ‘fake accusations’, which were picked up by a naive public and allowed legal murder.
I live next to a community in Germany....which in the late 1600s....had yearly witch accusations and burnings.
Sad to think that people are still as vicious today as they were in the 17th century.
I wonder if they’ll honor President Trump for all the witch hunting to which he’s been subjected.
Mind boggling that, at the time, we were still 84 years before the Declaration of Independence...virtually no one alive during those trials even got to see us become a country. It was certainly primitive back then.
...ping....
The new music director at my church was previously at a parish in Salem.
Rebecca Nurse was my ancestor from my father’s grandmother’s side. They killed her because Putnam wanted her land after her husband died. They had children act possessed by the devil when they were around her.
Exactly right.
Very nice! Last year, I visited Salem, Danvers and actually saw the tiny foundation of the Rev. Parris’s home in which all the trouble started with Abigail, Betty and Tituba. It sits behind an old, unoccupied house. Not far is a beautiful reproduction of the meeting house in which Parris complained about his lack of firewood and Rebecca Nurse’s lovely farmhouse and grounds. She is buried in an unknown place on the property. Truly heartstring-pulling!
Salem is beautiful - absolutely beautiful - but so crowded with tourists, it makes it uncomfortable. And try parking!
Everybody connects ‘Salem, MA’ with the witch trials.
No one ever thinks of Hartford, Connecticut, and the year, 1647. The woman’s name was Alse Young.
None were witches, as we all know, but very few understand that the fungi that contaminated their grain supplies produced LSD related alkaloids that caused the odd behavior that people mistook for demon possession.
That has not been proven. And not every witchcraft hysteria in Europe and America was caused LSD - not one, I would posit.
“I wonder if they’ll honor President Trump for all the witch hunting to which he’s been subjected.”........
First they need to hang or burn at the stake, all those who did the “witch hunting”. Might take quite a while.
Actually there is considerable evidence. We know with certainty the strains of wheat, rye, and oats at that time were all very susceptible to these fungi and that grain handling and storage was quite pathetic. The historical evidence of such outbreaks of disease from ergotized grain is very well documented, especially in Europe.
Are you suggesting these people were demon possessed?
Yes. I was saying that. Extreme eyeroll.
Meanwhile we have spirit cooking witches running for president and running the media in 2017.
So, why were they prosecuted as witches?
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