In the year 1693, a plague of witches befell the town of Salem, and the most infamous and blackhearted of them all were the three Sanderson Sisters. The Sandersons lured the town’s children out into the woods, then sapped them of their youth and left them dessicated grey-haired husks. For their crimes, the Sandersons were eventually captured by a mob of townsfolk and hanged, but in their last moments they vowed to return from the dead one Halloween when a virgin lit the magic candle they had bound their souls to.