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

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

[[Witchcraft]] is practiced today by millions of mostly [[obese]] women, and crowds have surged recently on [[Halloween]] in [[Salem, Massachusetts|Salem]] due to the 1692 witch trials.

[[Witchcraft]] is practiced today by millions of mostly [[obese]] women, and crowds have surged recently on [[Halloween]] in [[Salem, Massachusetts|Salem]] due to the 1692 witch trials.  As a result of the actual events, [[Puritan]]ism largely died off in New England; the area (outside of Irish and Italian "[[Cafeteria Catholic]]s") is largely secular and resistant to Christian ministry.

==Salem in the 1690s==

==Salem in the 1690s==