Massachusetts Grants Absolution To Its Last Remaining Witch
View Source | August 2, 2022 3:25 pm
- After 329 years — and thanks to an eighth-grade civics class — a Salem-era woman has been officially exonerated of devil worship.
- In 1693, Elizabeth Johnson was one of 30 people who were convicted as part of the Salem-area witch hysteria but the only one who hadn’t later been exonerated by the state Legislature.
- Now she has been given a reprieve as part of a budget bill signed by Governor Charlie Baker.
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