This Woman Was Executed As A Witch Because She Complained About Her Carpenters

We’re all familiar with the Salem witch trials that plagued the small town in Massachusetts from February 1692 to May 1693 and claimed the lives of nearly 20 victims who were accused as practicing witchcraft. You might even have read Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” in high school, but long before the "witches" made their way to Salem, there was a series of executions in Boston in the 1650s related to suspected witchcraft. And while there were only 12 executions in New England prior to the Salem Trials, none of them were quite as odd as the killing of Ann Hibbins,...

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