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Was Anyone Really Burned at the Stake During the Salem Witch Trials? (2015x4)

Air date: May 27, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?: http://bit.ly/1Ow7J0K Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from Today I Found Out: Concrete vs Cement http://bit.ly/1gPX1XK Black Friday http://bit.ly/1Ikvrfm Why Superheroes Wear Their Underwear On The Outside http://bit.ly/1HLvFLb In this video: When you think about people disposing of witches a few hundred years ago, you probably imagine a woman tied to a stake jutting up from a pile of smoking wood. The burning of witches has become so ingrained in witch-hunt canon that it’s a cliché. But the truth of the matter is that the burning of people convicted of being witches wasn’t all that common in England. By the time the colonies were set up, English law forbade burning people alive, which meant that no witches could be burned in the American colonies as a result of the Salem witch trials, contrary to what is often depicted. Want the text version? http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/09/witches-burned-salem-witch-trials/ Resources/Further Reading: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/brief-salem.htmlhttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/brief-salem.html http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/salem-witches-burned-at-stake http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/witch/werror.html#burned http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Parris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Williams http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Putnam,_Jr.