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Five women hanged for witchcraft - Aurora

On today's date 318 years ago, in 1692, five women were hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Mass. Their trials had begun after a book by Cotton Mather, a Congressionalist pastor in Boston, stirred up the clergy and their parishioners following its ...

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