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How dogs were implicated during the Salem witch trials

  • Written by Bridget Marshall, Professor of English, UMass Lowell
imageAn illustration of a court scene during the late-17th century witch trials in Salem, Mass.Christine_Kohler/iStock via Getty Images Plus

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692.

Nineteen people accused of witchcraft were executed...

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