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What Really Happened to Salem’s Witches

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The hysteria that was the foundation for the infamous persecution of witches in 1692 has contemporary echoes in how ‘witch hunts’ form today.

Lizzie Crocker
Lizzie Crocker
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Lizzie Crocker

Lizzie Crocker

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