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Taking place in 1692 and 1693, the Salem witch trials were held in towns across northeastern Massachusetts. The center of the trials was Salem Village, or the modern day town of Danvers, according to Salem State University history professor and author of “A Storm of Witchcraft” Emerson Baker.
One reason, particularly in Salem Village, was strife and factionalism as arguments over who the ministers should be, pitting neighbors against one another. Baker noted that this contention in the community laid the groundwork for accusations of witchcraft. In fact, the first people who were accused were the daughter and niece of a reverend who had political enemies.
Such a devastating weather pattern was caused by something much larger and more widespread than what the people of Salem might have guessed. The Little Ice Age brought cold winters with heavy snowfall; during spring, when farmers would plant their crops, frosts would come in until June. Summers were not much better for replanting; the weather was hot and dry enough to destroy more crops before another frost hit in August and early September.“It turns out the 1680s and the 1690s were the absolute most extreme weather of this whole Little Ice Age,” Baker said.
In 1697, Massachusetts called for a public day of humiliation and fasting. Baker said the occasion involved the colony publicly confessing its sins on how the colony had gone wrong, including being deluded by Satan to execute people for witchcraft. “Salem is known as the Witch City, but in fact, it’s symptomatic of a much larger problem that, it’s kind of a timeless crime that every society has escaped from.”David Schwimmer steps out after Matthew Perry's death
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