The stick also is pictured in PEM’s 1855 Tompkins Harrison Matteson painting of Jacobs’s trial. “The Salem Witch Trials 1692” culminates in a memorial wall and a list of restorative ...

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As I write this article on a sunny autumn afternoon, 1.2 million tourists are quickly invading my local city of Salem, Massachusetts. Many come for the haunted ...

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Ghouls flock to graveyards older than the American Constitution, and witches descend on the thoroughfares of Salem, Mass. as they sport thick plaid scarves and modern knitted witch hats — on ...

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Dauber’s right, though, to identify Salem as a keystone to American horror ... The historian Mary Beth Norton has argued that the witch trials were rooted in trauma and anxiety about the ...

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