Five Hanged in Salem: Witch Trials Claim More Victims
Five people were hanged in Salem on August 19, 1692, including former minister George Burroughs, who recited the Lord's Prayer perfectly on the gallows — something witches supposedly could not do. Cotton Mather, watching from horseback, urged the crowd that the executions were just. Nineteen would die in total before the trials ended.
August 19, 1692
334 years ago
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