(AP) — In 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts — the second in New England — to be executed for witchcraft, decades before the infamous Salem witch trials. Nearly ...
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The First Witch Executed in Salem”

In 1692, a small Puritan town descended into hysteria — and one woman became its first fatal example. Accused of witchcraft and conspiracy with the Devil, she was dragged before a court built on fear ...