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
Szeged witch trials a peninsula of the Tisza, called Boszorkánysziget (Island of Witches). Witch trials had occurred in Hungary since the 16th century, but did not reach any high level until the 1710s and 1720s, when the real panic arrived. In 1756, Queen Maria Theresa ordered that all cases of witchcraft must be confirmed by the high court, which more or less ended the witch trials; the last person in Hungary was executed for witchcraft in 1777. Szeged witch trials The Szeged witch trials, which took place in the city of Szeged in Hungary in 1728–1729, was perhaps the largest witch-hunt in Hungary.