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Connecticut Witch Trials: The First Panic in the New World

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Connecticut’s witch hunt was once the primary and so much ferocious in New England, happening almost fifty years before the infamous Salem witch trials. Between 1647 and 1697, no less than thirty-four women and men from around the state were formally charged with witchcraft. Eleven were hanged. In New Haven, William Meeker was once accused of cutting off and burning his pig’s ears and tail as he cast a bewitching spell. After the putting of Fairfield’s Goody Knapp, magistrates cut down and searched her body for the marks of the devil. Thru newspaper clippings, court records, letters and diaries, writer Cynthia Wolfe Boynton uncovers the dark history of the Connecticut witch trials.

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