Theories on their cause include child abuse, fortune-telling experiments gone amok, and even accidental ingestion of a hallucinatory fungus called ergot.
Theories on their cause include child abuse, fortune-telling experiments gone amok, and even accidental ingestion of a hallucinatory fungus called ergot. A coalition of clergy led by Increase Mather convinced Governor Sir William Phips to bring an end to the incident. Sadly, by October 1692, twenty people had been hanged, five had died in prison, and one man had been pressed to death by stones. FTP name this period of Puritan hysteria in the town now named Danvers, Massachusetts.
Theories on their cause include child abuse, fortune-telling experiments gone amok, and even accidental ingestion of a hallucinatory fungus called ergot.
the {Salem witch trials}