If You Lived in 1692, Would They Have Called You a Witch?

Why Are So Many People Remembering Those Gifts Now?

Maggie Byrne Taylor

It is a question that comes up often when people talk about the witch trials. If you lived in that time, would you have been accused?

For many people today the answer comes quickly and almost jokingly. Probably. But the question becomes much more interesting when you begin to look at who those women actually were. Not the dramatic version we see in movies or Halloween stories, but the real people who were accused.