[DOC] [TLE] Salem witch trials - Wikipedia [PAR] 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. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, fourteen of them ... 
had been hanged. The city owns the site and is planning a memorial to the 
victims. [DOC] [TLE] Witch trials in the early modern period - Wikipedia [PAR] The period of witch trials in Early Modern Europe were a widespread moral panic 
suggesting that malevolent Satanic witches were ... An estimated total of 40,000-
60,000 people were executed during the witch trials. ... The witch-trials emerge in 
the 15th century out of the practices surrounding the persecution of heresy in the
... [DOC] [TLE] A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials | History | Smithsonian [PAR] Oct 23, 2007 ... A girl is accused during the Salem Witch Trials (Bettmann / CORBIS) ... of 
practicing witchcraftthe Devil's magicand 20 were executed. ... Tens of 
thousands of supposed witchesmostly womenwere executed. ..... Certainly 
people call themselves witches today but not in the 17th Century .... City / State. [DOC] [TLE] 'Mass Demonic Possession' At Peru School  100 Schoolgirls ... [PAR] May 19, 2016 ... The footage shows several children, supposedly possessed by the devil, ... of 
people who had been tortured by a local Mafia before they were murdered. ... 
Eighty children treated in hospital after outbreak of 'demonic possession' in ... is 
the infamous Salem witch trials that occurred in the late 17th century. [DOC] [TLE] The Salem Witch Trials [PAR] People have always believed you could use magic to improve your crop or ... 
Witches, in the 17th century were what communists were in the McCarthy era. ... 
book called Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcraft and Possessions. ... 
Whatever exactly happened by 20 January 1692 the two girls were having 
strange fits. [DOC] [TLE] Salem Witch Trials - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American ... [PAR] The last executions took place in September 1692, but it was not until May 1693 
that ... City upon a Hill, an image of American exceptionalism still regularly 
invoked. ... After the Hartford outbreak, witchcraft accusations and prosecutions 
declined. ... Unfortunately, this status, virtually unknown in 17th-century 
Massachusetts,... [DOC] [TLE] Free The Salem Witch Trials Essays and Papers [PAR] More than a hundred innocent people were found guilty of practicing witchcraft ... 
of practicing witchcraft, the Devil's magic, and 20 were executed (Blumberg). .... 
Salem Witch Trials of 1692 - The Salem witch trials of the 17th century, was an ..... 
girls possessed by demons defined the year 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. [DOC] [TLE] Hogwarts fan? Follow the trail of real witches - CNN.com [PAR] Oct 21, 2013 ... The world is full of witches -- some real, some imagined. ... The trials, which led to 
the execution of 20 "witches," started after two girls were afflicted with a strange 
illness that 17th-century doctors could not diagnose. ... The 1612 trials, in which 
ten people were found guilty and hanged, were among the most... [DOC] [TLE] Witches in the dock: 10 of Britain's most infamous witch trials ... [PAR] Joan Prentice, Cony and Upney hang after third Chelmsford trial, 1589 - Topfoto 
... was executed for witchcraft in Scotland in the 1720s, people continued to 
harbour a ... One common misconception is that witch trials belong to the 
medieval era. .... On 20 August 1612 two men and eight women were hanged at 
the gallows... [DOC] [TLE] witchcraft facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] As many or more accused witches were executed in Protestant lands as in 
Catholic ... such as Cathars and Waldensians, to people who supposedly had 
chosen to ... Sometimes the witch went out by the door, and there found a demon 
in the ... In late seventeenth-century Spain, after an outbreak of witchcraft 
accusations in... [DOC] [TLE] Medieval Torture - Medieval Warfare [PAR] It was not only the Inquisition that practised torture but it is the Inquisition that has 
... In contrast, torturous executions were usually

Question: 20 people were executed after the supposed 17th C. demonic possession of girls in this U.S. city
Answer: Salem