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The Salem witch trials explained: How fear, fungus and panic led to the deaths of 19 innocent people

In the winter of 1692, a nine-year-old girl and her eleven-year-old cousin began having violent fits inside a parsonage in Salem Village, Massachusetts. They screamed, threw objects, contorted their bodies, complained of being bitten and pinched by invisible hands, and reported seeing spectral figures that no one else could see.…

The Times of India · Jul 1

The Good John Proctor review – Salem gears up for witch hunting

Set in the year before the events of The Crucible, the volatile children’s games that seed the later hysteria are brilliantly played but the drama is missing

The Guardian - UK · Jan 12, 2024