Haunted Happenings and Hocus Pocus: Memorialization of the Salem Witch Trials - Is Salem Doing Enough?

The history and fascination of the Salem Witch Trials continues to attract visitors to the American coastal city in Massachusetts. This paper will investigate what has been instigated in the form of memorialization to those that were accused and subsequently executed; nineteen were hanged and one wa...

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Main Author: Hubbard, Cheryl (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. 2021
In: The pomegranate
Year: 2021, Volume: 23, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 166-185
Further subjects:B Landscape
B Massachusetts
B Memory
B Memorialization
B Salem
B Witch Trials
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Summary:The history and fascination of the Salem Witch Trials continues to attract visitors to the American coastal city in Massachusetts. This paper will investigate what has been instigated in the form of memorialization to those that were accused and subsequently executed; nineteen were hanged and one was pressed to death, how has Salem confronted this part of their history?
ISSN:1743-1735
Contains:Enthalten in: The pomegranate
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/pome.21358