Salem witch trials
Taken from Wikipedia:
“The central figure in this 1876 illustration of the
courtroom is usually identified as Mary Walcott, the daughter of Jonathan Walcott and a
key accuser in the Salem Witch Trials.
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and
prosecutions of people (mostly women) accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts,
between February 1692 and May 1693.”
Most of these were women that did not conform to the
puritanical beliefs of the time; and were blamed for causing medical and psychological bewitchment.
The cause of the symptoms of those who claimed affliction
continues to be a subject of interest. Various medical and psychological
explanations for the observed symptoms have been explored by researchers,
including psychological hysteria in response to Indian attacks, convulsive ergotism caused by eating rye bread made from grain infected
by the fungus Claviceps purpurea (a
natural substance from which LSD is derived)
This is a trippy town, what can I say??
and, of course, they all need a way to get around:
