text: You seem to me making assumptions about my background. I have 3 American Citizen grandparents who settled in Canada circa 1900.  My ancestry includes family members and even a "maid" who came over with them in the 1600s and were executed or died in jail during the Christian Hysteria in Salem. My ancestors fought Hessian Mercenaries in New York and served in the Union Army during the civil war.
  
  Today the myth persists that there was any actual Satanic or witchcraft activity at Salem. 
  
  Reading the accounts of the trial what we find is upstanding Christians testifying that they woke up with memories of women appearing in their beds, so of course the women they had erotic dreams about must have actually been in their beds, and that could only be done if they used satanic magic to do that.