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Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony between February 1692 and May 1693. The events resulted in more than a hundred people being accused of witchcraft, 140 imprisoned, nineteen executed by hanging, and one man pressed to death under interrogation. The process profoundly shaken the social and legal structures of the colony and has since become a symbol of mass hysteria religious extremism and judicial failure in American his