The Salem Witch Trials: Profiles and Stories

By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 5, 2026 · Updated May 5, 2026 What Were the Salem Witch Trials? The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than two hundred people were accused of witchcraft. Nineteen were hanged, one was pressed to […]