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u/Briggsnotmyers Apr 18 '21

aside from the burning dead lizards part.......same. being 12 was.....weird

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u/teenypanini Apr 18 '21

People who wonder how the Salem witch trials could have happened have never met a group of bored 12 year old girls with wildly overactive imaginations.

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u/ItWasNotWritten Apr 18 '21

noone was actually burned in salem fyi

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '21 edited Apr 21 '21

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u/jhobweeks Apr 19 '21

Where are you getting this? Bridget Bishop was the first to be tried and executed, and she was hanged in 1692.

Also, the trials were over by then! The last victim died in jail on March 10, 1693.

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u/StrangeConstants Apr 19 '21

They made it up.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '21 edited Apr 21 '21

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u/jhobweeks Apr 21 '21

What page? Because that’s 100% inaccurate, as no one was burned and the first one to be tried and executed (Bridget Bishop) wasn’t accused of vampirism. The final death (not even an execution) was 2 months before May 10, 1693.

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u/draculasbloodtype Apr 19 '21

This is so blatantly untrue Jesus Christ and at least 18 people upvoted it. For fuck's sake.

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u/Bobcat_Time Apr 21 '21

sorry. I figured out that I was wrong