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In 1692, the Massachusetts Bay Colony executed fourteen women, five men, and two dogs for witchcraft. The sorcery started in January. The first hanging took place in June, the last in September; a stark, stunned silence followed. Although we will never know the exact number of those charged with working in the dark arts. We do know the number was somewhere around 200 witches and wizards who were named in twenty-five villages and towns. The youngest was five; the eldest nearly eighty. Husbands implicated wives; nephews their aunts; daughters their mothers; siblings each other. This is all just the beginning of the ridiculousness that went down in Salem all those years ago. What caused this histeria? Why was it suddenly open season on all accused witches? And if these witches were being hunted why didn’t they just fly away on their nimbus 2000’s and firebults before things escalated to quickly? Well find out all this and more as we look into the dark secrets of Salem, Massachusetts today on Brain Bitez. If you