The group wants all victims of the 17th century witch trials exonerated to not just correct the record, but to learn from the mistakes of the past.
Two people dressed as witches sit on a bench outside the Witches' Ball ahead of Halloween in Salem, Mass., on Oct. 27. In spring 1692, a handful of women in the New England town of Salem Village had been arrested on “suspicion of acts of witchcraft” when authoritiesSarah Good spent roughly four months in prison before she was hanged on Gallows Hill. Her baby was born in prison and soon died too, according records from theDorothy remained jailed for more than seven months .
Hutchinson added that while hunting and executing people suspected of being witches is a grim historic relic in the United States, it remains an active concern in other parts of the world, including, Nepal, Nigeria and Papua New Guinea.
Among the more than 200 charged, only 31 — those executed or convicted without execution — have had their names formally cleared.
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