Salem witch trials Salem witch trials The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused, nineteen of whom were found guilty and executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death for refusing to plead, and at least five people died in jail. It was the deadliest witch hunt in the history of the United States. Twelve other women had previously been executed in Massachusetts and Connecticut during the 17th century. Despite being
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