The Salem Witch Trials were a series of trials against witches in Salem. As idiotic as that sounds that is as simple a definition as one can give it. Between February of Sixteen Ninety two and May of Sixteen Ninety three, twenty people were executed on the accusations of “Witchcraft.” The accused would be rushed through a trial and publicly executed before the public. After they were executed vigilantes would generally go after their families as well due to them being satanic for “housing witches”. All in all, Salem was not particularly the bee’s knees in terms of racial acceptance and was not the best place to live if you happened to be a witch; but that’s not what will be discussed, the following essay recounts the stories of the victims