A forgotten witch hunt in New England
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What's So Special About the Springfield Witchcraft Trial?
Historians of witchcraft are always looking for the physical context, the social context from which the accusations arise. So the thing about springfield is that it's very well described in the records. We have very fine grained, er, er rich, colonial records particularly about this witchcraft trial. There are pages and pages of original depositions that tell us an awful lot.
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