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FREE for children 9 and under. A very limited number of combo tickets will be available each day, at the on-site box office cart only, which will include all activities available at the Old Town Hall, the day of the performance. Summer season tickets are available here. October tickets are here.
For information on booking groups or private off-season performances, please contact Cheri Grishin at historyaliveinc gmail. During October, please leave plenty of time for heavy traffic, difficult parking and walking to the venue. To understand the events of the Salem Witch Trials , it is necessary to examine the times in which accusations of witchcraft occurred. There were the ordinary stresses of 17th-century life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. A strong belief in the devil, factions among Salem Village families and rivalry with nearby Salem Town combined with a recent small pox epidemic and the threat of attack by warring tribes created a fertile ground for fear and suspicion.
All would await trial for a crime punishable by death in 17th-century New England — the practice of witchcraft. In June of , the special Court of Oyer to hear and Terminer to decide sat in Salem to hear the cases of witchcraft. Presided over by Chief Justice William Stoughton, the court was made up of magistrates and jurors. The first to be tried was Bridget Bishop of Salem who was found guilty and was hanged on June Thirteen women and five men from all stations of life followed her to the gallows on three successive hanging days before the court was disbanded by Governor William Phipps in October of that year.
This belief in the power of the accused to use their invisible shapes or spectres to torture their victims had sealed the fates of those tried by the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The new court released those awaiting trial and pardoned those awaiting execution. In effect, the Salem Witch Trials were over.
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