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Salem Witch Memorial
The photographs of each of the subject of these five foam boards are different. One says, "Innocent...I do plead," another says, "Elizabeth Howe, Hanged, July 19, 1692," and the last said, "I will deny it to my dying day, I am no witch." Each of these boards display the horrific realities of the witch trials at that time.
These foam boards were taken from Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, witch trials memorial.
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Witch Trial of George Jacob, August 5, 1692
The painting, “Trial of George Jacobs, August 5, 1692” by Tompkins H. Matteson, gives an inside look to the courtroom of the Salem Witch Trials, specifically for George Jacobs (right) attempting to plead his innocence as young girls and townspeople in varying states of hysteria accuse him of witchcraft before a tribunal of judges. George Jacobs was one of the few men accused of witchcraft during the witch trials, and he was convicted and hanged on August 19, 1692. -
Glinda the Good Witch - Wizard of Oz
Set in the 1930s in America, in the movie "The Wizard of Oz," the presentation of witches is different from what we have seen before. Witches are versatile: Glinda, the good witch, asks Dorothy whether she was a good witch or a bad witch, which shows that the witch herself isn’t inherently good or bad. TimeToast -
HalloweenTown
Set in America during the 1990s, in the movie "Halloweentown," the daughter, mother, and grandmother trio of secret witches team up to save Halloweentown from evil forces. In this movie, the witches weren’t the evil forces, they were the people saving the town, so we see the shift from inherently bad witches to witches who are the heroes of the story.