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
Beyond the Witch Trials Beyond the Witch Trials Beyond the Witch Trials: Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe is an academic anthology edited by the historians Owen Davies and Willem de Blécourt. It was first published by Manchester University Press in 2004. Containing ten separate papers by different academics active in the field, the book dealt with the continued practice of magic and the belief in witchcraft in Europe following the end of the Witch trials in the Early Modern period. The same year, Manchester University Press would bring out a companion anthology, also edited by Davies and Blécourt. Entitled "Witchcraft Continued: Popular Magic