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Salem, with a population of around 40,000, sits by Massachusetts Bay and has a total area of about 18 square miles. By an act of Congress it was designated as the country’s first Maritime National Historic Site providing its historic waterfront with permanent protection from land development. It does, however, have another less laudable link to the past, as the site of the Salem Witch Trials. Today, that event is exploited, eccentrically and economically, and very much in evidence: i.e. cruising cop cars with flying-witch-on-a-broom decals.

Some three centuries earlier, the episode, especially the executions, had come on the eve of an emerging enlightenment about politics, religion and society throughout Europe, England and the established east coast settlements of North America. As news about it spread and it became evident Salem’s elders had selected superstition over schooling, shame and embarrassment would stigmatize Salem and colonial Essex county for centuries.

Season Of The Witch

The Salem witch trials occurred between 1692 and 1693. Over 200 people were accused of witchcraft and Devil worship, and roughly ten percent of them were executed. Eventually, the colony admitted the error of their ways and compensated the families of those condemned. Since then, the story has become synonymous with paranoia and prejudice, and it continues to cast its shadowy spell 300 or so years later.

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