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[Paul Mitchell]

cougar17 at swbell.net wrote:
<snip>
> The fervor started in Europe, and then died off, only to re-surface in
> America with a village in Salem, where little girls playing a game with
> thier "nanny," started having convulsion fits. The nanny, who was black,
> was tried and burned, kicking off the American Trials knows as the Salem
> Witch hunts. The public grew tired of this within a few years, noticing
> that all the women were dissapearing off the face of the earth, and quit
> this practice. Hundreds of thousands of people died in the trials, even
> men and children.
<snip>

A minor correction.  No alleged witches were burned at Salem.  19 were 
hanged.  One was pressed to death.

> 
>                                                 Cougar!!

- Galen
pmitchel at flash.net
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