October 23, 2024

AF-978: The Connecticut Witch Trials: Witch Hysteria in America Long Before Salem


If you thought the infamous Salem witch trials of 1692 were the only incident of witch hysteria in colonial America, that is understandable. This incident is widely known and talked about, probably because of the number of people convicted and accused. Twenty victims were unjustly executed, while hundreds more for miles around and from far outside of Salem were accused and spent time in jail before the hysteria ended. However, the incident in Salem Village was not the first or only time this happened in colonial America. There are other incidents of witch hysteria or individual witch accusations that are simply overlooked. One of the most notorious of these “forgotten” witch incidents happened a generation before Salem in Hartford, Connecticut...

Podcast Note: https://ancestralfindings.com/the-connecticut-witch-trials-witch-hysteria-in-america-long-before-salem/

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