Salem Witch Museum

17/4/12 Another lovely summer day, 28 degrees again, shorts and tshirts again. We arrived after lunch and got settled in the hotel right away. Then out for a walk around Salem. There are witchy shops and crystal shops and tarot readers and haunted houses and wax museums and pirate museums and lots more to see and do. We started with a walk to the …

For the morning in Salem on day two, visit the Salem Witch Museum in Washington Square to learn about Puritans and the causes of the 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials.

In the 1600’s, Puritans in England escaped religious persecution by migrating to the New World. Under the leadership of John Winthrop, the Puritans founded Massachusetts …

Début de visite à 7.00 A.M !!!
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... , 19 people were accused of being witches and hanged. Another one, Giles Corey was crushed to death. We went to the Salem Witch Museum which gave a good account of why the Witch Trials happened and what started the mass hysteria. It also gave a history ...

Catching the train out to Salem was fun. I checked out Salem Common and visited the Salem Witch museum, which had an interactive mannequin display about the Salem Witchtrials of 1672. It was interesting, considering at the end of it, it was a hoax. 19 ...

... we finally arrived in Salem, Massachusetts around 11. We parked our car in a parking garage and started walking to find the Salem Witch Museum. After looking at a map, I saw that we were very close by. However, I guided everybody in the completely wrong ...

... type this over. Salem was very busy - considering it is the witch capital of the nation.  The lines were very busy at the Witch museum and we decided to not wait.  But we did take the city trolley tour (a defnite worth it in ANY city).  ...

... , I'm only hitting Salem. Since I only had an hour, I could only do one activity and the recommendation was the Salem Witch Museum. It's a series of dioramas that explain the events of the Witch Trials. Of course, it would've been better with ...

... having briefly heard about Wicca in the past, I just like to stay away from where wicked thoughts breed. There's all sorts of witch museums and shops which we avoided. We were curious though so we tried following the Heritage Trail around town. We walked ...

... In the morning there was a street fair in the main street selling all kinds of new age and witchy stuff. Evey second shop was a witch museum or costume shop. Can't say I learned much about the trial or witches there but I was happy being out of the ...

Cont'd We then drove another 3 hours to Salem to see the Witch Museum. It freaked me (Krislyn) out. Everything was scary during the presentation. We learned about how people accused others of being witches when most were innocent. They hanged ...

... famous for the origin of Halloween, however it does have a very dark past involving the witch trials of 1692. The Salem witch museum gives a good insight into the witch hysteria which resulted in the death of twenty innocent people which all started from ...

... where they can find "the witches." And witches are everywhere in this city. Nicknamed the "Witch City," Salem is home to the Witch Museum, Witch House and Witch Dungeon. Come learn the historical differences between witches in the year 2007 and that of ...