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A forgotten witch hunt in New England

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Springfield, Massachusetts Witch Trial

Springfield is not very well known at all. It doesn't have, it isn't quite a cat rapic as what happens at salem,. massachusetts but it does prefigure it. The way in which witchcraft accusations play out is also very similar. There is greater emphasis in these new england trials er placed upon the th the diabolic and the demonic on the forming of a covenant with satan. But they have exactly the same problems that the english courts have. Is that this is very difficult to prove, because you just don't have the material evidence, because witchcraft is a crime of darkness, and the devil conceals the evidence. And so that juries in new eng

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