Elizabeth Hubbard (Salem witch trials) Elizabeth Hubbard (Salem witch trials) Elizabeth Hubbard was born in 1674 (death unknown). She was seventeen years old in the spring of 1692. Dr. Griggs, the town physician in Salem, Massachusetts, diagnosed Elizabeth and several other girls with the affliction of an “Evil Hand”. In simpler terms, the girls were said to be victims suffering from the powers of the Salem witches, trials lasting February 1692 to May 1693. During this time, twenty people were executed by hanging (except for one), fourteen of which were women. Elizabeth Hubbard was born in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1674 and was one of
Salem witch trials physician and author Thomas Browne, to be used in the Bury St Edmunds witch trial and the accusations against two Lowestoft women, the colonial magistrates also accepted its validity and their trials proceeded. Sometime in February 1692, likely after the afflictions began but before specific names were mentioned, a neighbor of Rev. Parris, Mary Sibly (or Sibley; aunt of Mary Walcott), instructed John Indian, one of the minister's slaves, to make a "witch cake." She intended to use traditional English white magic to discover the identity of the witch who was afflicting the girls. The cake, made from rye meal