Not to downplay the atrocity of the whole thing, but -- no one in Massachusetts was burned for being a witch. > The Salem witch trials were a series of hearing

Not to downplay the atrocity of the whole thing, but -- no one in Massachusetts was burned for being a witch. > The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than two hundred people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death for refusing to plead, and at least five people died in jail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials