John Proctor (Salem witch trials) John Proctor (Salem witch trials) John Proctor (March 30, 1632 – August 19, 1692) was a landowner in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was the son of John Proctor, Sr. (1594–1672) and Martha Harper (1607–1667). He was hanged on August 19, 1692 in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Salem Witch Trials after being falsely accused and convicted for witchcraft. John Proctor was born in Suffolk, England. When he was just three years old, his parents brought their family to America. They sailed from London, England, on 12 April 1635 on a ship called the "Susan and Ellen". Upon
Northern Moravia witch trials people are estimated to have been executed in the 1678-1696 witch craze. Otakar Vávra's film "Kladivo na čarodějnice" (Malleus Maleficarum, also translated as "Witches' Hammer" or "Witchhammer", 1969) is based on Václav Kaplický’s book "Kladivo na čarodějnice" (1963), a novel about witch trials in Northern Moravia during the 1670s. Northern Moravia witch trials Northern Moravian witch trials, also known as "Boblig witch trials" was a series of witch trials which occurred in the Jeseník and Šumperk area in present-day Czech Republic, between 1622 and 1696. They are among the largest and most well known witch trials in the history of