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Accusations in the Salem witch trials extend to children

A late 17th-century New England village street with wooden houses and a small group of children and adults gathered in the dirt road, showing somber faces and plain colonial clothing.

In March 1692, accusations linked to the Salem witch trials began implicating children, expanding the scope of the crisis and intensifying community fear and legal responses in colonial Massachusetts.

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