It is best remembered for the witchcraft hysteria that gripped the area in the closing years of the seventeenth century. Salem was founded in by Roger Conant and a group of immigrants from Cape Ann. At first the settlement was named Naumkeag, but the settlers preferred to call it Salem, derived from the Hebrew word for peace. The events for which Salem is best remembered began in A local physician diagnosed several teenage girls as bewitched, which resulted in the hanging of nineteen persons and one being crushed to death.
When the hysteria had played itself out the following year, an edict was issued that released all people from prison who had been accused of witchcraft. Since then, no one has been hanged for witchcraft in the United States. The history of that period can be explored at the Salem Witch Museum. Numerous original papers from the trials are kept at the Peabody Essex Museum. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, , at the peak of Salem's sailing prosperity.
A house believed to have inspired him to write "The House of the Seven Gables" is maintained and open to the public, along with Hawthorne's nearby birthplace. Bewitched Wiki Explore. Bewitched Series. During all this Cotton Mather was sent to the future to capture Scarlet Witch and returned her to the past with him. They were pursued by Spider-Man and the Vision who prevented her execution at the hands of Salem's villagers, [6] but were captured by Mather and the townspeople.
He then contacted the Dark Rider, but their meeting was interrupted by Spider-Man and Vision who had escaped from prison as well as Doctor Doom who had traveled to the past as well. The Rider then demanded he stab Wanda, but he was interrupted by Moondragon. Spidey rushed to rescue the of the other accused townsfolk but he was to later and found them all hung. Firestar when she was accidentally sent back in time to while fighting the Sphinx.
Believing her to be a witch the Puritans tried to burn her at the stake. She fought back but was saved by Agatha Harkness leading her to safety.
She asked Firestar to join her but she refused. Firestar begged Agatha to find another option. Her pleas did not fall on deaf ears and Agatha agreed and settled the town of New Salem , a secret magical community in what would be known Colorado. He had taken on the position after the last reverend was banished for witchcraft.
His son was in a relationship with Abigail Harkness , whom Hiram believed was a witch and thus disapproved. He forbade Obadiah from seeing her, but Obadiah disobeyed, believing that Abigail was innocent. One night, he was summoned by Dormammu. Dormammu warned Shaw that his lust for power would damn his entire family for all time.
He offered Shaw protection in exchange for Shaw's submission, but Shaw refused. When Shaw returned to Earth, he found his wife, Sarah Shaw , dead. Hiram blamed Abigail and had her arrested for witchcraft and murder. She was sentenced to death but Obadiah rescued her and the two escaped town. Hiram sent a pack of townsfolk after them. Abigail revealed that she was indeed a witch and killed the townspeople with a blast of fire. Only Hiram survived. A young Mutant ; girl named Gloria Knoblach lived in Salem and was accused of being a witch.
She was judged guilty and hung in June that year. Another woman is accused of being a witch. However, what if witchcraft did really exist in the 17th century? Well, pilgrims that lived in the much more rural areas of the Boston countryside were starting to absorb numerous diseases such as the plague, smallpox, tuberculosis and even the lost of mentality.
Soon, this mysterious illness was starting to spread everywhere, it eventually reached Boston and other major settlements in the coast which caused so much paranoia and distrust among the puritan families that executions were starting to be held without trials and soon social order collapses and local militia's are raised to keep the peace in some regions while violent Puritan organizations were starting to form and began a genocide of the rural Massachusetts population, killing more than 4, people in a span of a year.
Those who we're non-puritans, mostly Catholics and non-radical Protestants took up arms against the Puritans while unknown figures watched from the distance and took the opportunity to sneak into people's homes and began a widespread kidnapping of men, women and children. In the dawn of a new century, the war between the Puritans, Catholics and non-radical Protestants continue while the government of the Thirteen Colonies struggle to develop a plan to quell down the violence as most of them we're either Puritans or non-radical Protestants and caused a division between the Thirteen Colonies.
England back home, witnesses the bloodshed and chaos happening in her American colonies and calls in a huge amount of English troops to takeover the Colonies and temporarily takeover the civilian government to asses the situation. Alternative History Explore.
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