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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Hartford Was Hit By Witch-Hunt Fever

"If we hadn't had Salem in the picture, Connecticut would be by all odds the leader in witchcraft trials and executions, more than any other colony at that time," says John Demos, a Yale University social historian regarded as the pre-eminent scholar on early American witchcraft.

Prof. Hex at 10:05 AM
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