Six witches executed in Salem

Category
Religion
Place
United States
Date
1692
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"By 1648 the prosecution of witches had largely come to an end in Spain, the Dutch Republic, England, Geneva and France. . . . In Scotland the last major outbreak was 1661–2. In Poland, Bohemia and Hungary witch-hunting did not reach a peak until after 1700. . . . In 1648 witches were being burnt all over Europe; by 1815 anyone attempting to prosecute a ‘witch’ would find him-or herself in the dock." [Blanning: Pursuit of Glory, p. 464, 467]

This event is linked to the following periods

PeriodMiner
Begin
End
Category
Colonial North America
1492
1776
United States
Religion
-3800
2020
Transcultural