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Month: October 2025

Those who were accused of witchcraft were held in this room of what was once the courthouse in Maidstone

Salem’s witches were pardoned, but Britain’s weren’t. There’s now a movement to change that

CNN By James Frater, CNN (CNN) — While the women accused in the infamous Salem witch trials in colonial America have long since been pardoned, the convictions of hundreds of British women executed under similar laws officially still stand. Now, one local authority in southern England is campaigning to change that. Decades before Salem, hysteria

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