The Witches: Salem, 1692
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra: A Life, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials in her fourth book, THE WITCHES: SALEM, 1692, available now from Little, Brown & Co.
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Original Title: TIL for the most part, English witches were hanged while French ones were burned. This posed a riddle for the Channel island of Guernsey when three witches turned up there in 1617. Ultimately, they were hanged according to British law, then burned according to French 🤯