11.   Schaffner said he could find only one reference in standard textbooks, a single sentence referring to the Salem witch trials.

12.   Sewall has a checkered history, however, because he was a judge in the infamous Salem witch trials.

13.   Such hysteria might have been expected in Salem during the witch trials or maybe Philadelphia, which wallowed in GOP platitudes.

14.   Stories of the witch trials, certainly, but also tales involving everything from celebrities to ghosts.

15.   That armature went up about a century after the Salem witch trials, when people began to settle in Framingham.

16.   The Crucible R Arthur Miller adapts his own play about the Salem witch trial.

17.   The Salem witch trials are authentic Massachusetts history.

18.   Today, the Salem witch trials are largely a historical curiosity relegated to school textbooks.

19.   For instance, the infamous witch trials in Massachusetts had their roots in fungus-infected rye that sickened people and cattle with symptoms attributed to evil spells.

20.   Modern witches say they hope to use the tragedy of the witch trials to educate people about their religion.