The Salem Witch Trials

In january of 1692, in Salem, Massachusetts a nine-year-old girl, Elisabeth Parris became ill. The village doctor William Grass was called in.  His diagnosis of bewitchment put into motion the forces that would ultimately result in the death by hanging nineteen men and women. In addition, one man was crushed to death, seventeen others died in prison and the lives of many were irrevocably changed...