The Haunting Of The Salem Witch Trials

Did one of America’s darkest chapters leave behind spiritual evidence?
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Claudette Colbert in Maid of Salem
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The Crucible
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Anatomy of the heart and arterial blood vessels, from De Arte Phisicali et de Cirurgia by John Arderne, Latin manuscript, 15th Century.
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Salem Witch Trial Memorial From Charter Street Cemetery
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Massachusetts, 1909, Salem, Salem Neck, Marblehead, Nalem Harbor, Massachusetts State Atlas
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The Burning of Archbishop Cranmer
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The Trial of a Witch, 17th century Puritan America. Illustration for the play Giles Corey, Yeoman by Mary E Wilkins (Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman), American novelist and playwright. Wood engraving 1892.
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Him Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, fall of rebel angels
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Engraving of a Suspect Fainting Before Judge During Witch Hunt Trial by Darley
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The Legend Of Salem: 'The Rev, George Burroughs Was Accused Of Witchcraft On The Evidence Of Feats Of Strength, Tried, Hung, And Buried Beneath The Gallows' Illus, In: Frank Leslie'S Illustrated Newspaper, V, 31, (1871 Feb, 4), P, 345.
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Arnoldo asking in vain for news of Angiola Maria, illustration for Angiola Maria, novel by Giulio Carcano (1812-1884), engraving by Gallieni after drawing by Tofani, published by Paolo Carrara, 1874, Milan
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The house of the Seven Gables, 17th century, the mansion that gave the title to the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), Salem, Massachusetts, USA
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Theophraste Renaudot, 17th century French physician, philanthropist, and journalist,