I. Witch Hunts After Salem
A) Seneca Possessed: Native American Witch Hunts
B) Changes in the Law
C) Folk Persecutions

Image: The Mystic Massacre, May 26, 1637
Image: The "Hex House" of Nelson Rehmeyer
Image: "Witchcraft Devotees Indicted in Killing," Rochester Evening Journal, 8 January 1929
Image: Der lange verborgene Freund (1828) [originally published 1820]

II. Medicine & Psychiatry 

Image: Aegidius Albertinus, Hirnschleiffer (Cologne: Munich, 1664)
Image: Postcard showing the Nebrasks State Hospital for the Insane

III. Commercialization & Domestication

Clip: Introduction to Bewitched (1964-1972)
Trailer: Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

IV. Satanic Panic: Witch Hunts Without Witches

Image right:  John Mix Stanley, The Trial of Red Jacket (1869). Smithsonian American Art Museum Red Jacket (1758-1830) was a famous leader of the Seneca tribe of the Iroquois Nation. In this ambitious painting, John Mix Stanley showed the chief defending himself against a charge of witchcraft. Under his white robe is the red jacket given to him by a British officer for his help as a messenger during the American Revolution. Stanley trained as a portrait painter, and all of the figures in this work are portraits of identifiable individuals. .

Modern Attacks on Reputed Witches: 

Lynching in Grønning, Denmark, 1722 
Lynching of Ruth Osborne, 1751 (Tring, Hertfordshire) 
Murder of Bridget Cleary, Ireland 1894 
Arson attack against Elizabeth Hahn, Germany 1976 
Stoning of a reputed witch in Mexico, 1981 
Burning to death of Hluphekile Madlala for witchcraft in Durban, South Africa, 5 September 1997 
Beating to death of a Anna Tomovka for witchcraft in Krajne, Slovakia, September 2001

Image right: a postcard from the 1920s depicting the conveyance of a witch to the prison tower in Lemgo. Stadtarchiv Lemgo. Beginning in the late eighteenth and throughout the nineteenth centuries, witchcraft prosecution became the object of intense interest for antiquarians, folklorists, and historians. Through their activities, the story of witch-trials was interwoven with local historical consciousness, became part of emerging "national" memories, and imparted (spurious) historical depth to ongoing debates between liberals and conservatives, Protestants and Catholics. Image source: historicum.net.