How do the witch trials in Stamford, Connecticut differ from the witch trails in Salem, Massachusetts?
The events which led to the Witch Trials actually occurred in what is now the town of Danvers, then a parish of Salem Town, known as Salem Village. Launching the hysteria was the bizarre, seemingly inexplicable behavior of two young girls; the daughter, Betty, and the niece, Abigail Williams, of the Salem Village minister, Reverend Samuel Parris. Witch trials in Connecticut? The mass hysteria of Salem’s persecution was absent but the injustice of wrongful accusations and suffering from it was there.
