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The trials were stopped when the governor's wife was accused of being a witch. To this day Salem is a favorite gathering place for people enamored of witchcraft.  Famous [[American]] writer [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], who wrote the novel partially against [[Puritan]] [[morality]] called the ''[[The Scarlett Letter]]'', was born in Salem as a direct descendant of a presiding trial judge (who never recanted his actions), and Hawthorne felt his family was cursed due to its role.  Hawthorne's own father died at sea when Hawthorne was only 4 years old.

The trials were stopped when the governor's wife was accused of being a witch. To this day Salem is a favorite gathering place for people enamored of witchcraft.  Famous [[American]] writer [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], who wrote the novel partially against [[Puritan]] [[morality]] called the ''[[The Scarlett Letter]]'', was born in Salem as a direct descendant of a presiding trial judge (who never recanted his actions), and Hawthorne felt his family was cursed due to its role.  Hawthorne's own father died at sea when Hawthorne was only 4 years old.

The Salem Witch Trials happened in a time period a little longer than one year.  By contrast, during the European [[Witch trials in the early modern period]], people were put on trial and some were executed over more than a 300-year period.

The European [[Witch trials in the early modern period]] occurred over a longer period of time: people were put on trial and some were executed over more than a 300-year period.

==Salem in the 1690s==

==Salem in the 1690s==