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Joseph E. Baker, Library of Congress // Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

Discover whether you are guilty of maleficium and/or would have been accused of practicing witchcraft according to the laws and evidence used during the 1692 Salem Witch Trials.

Leah Beckmann


















A stereotypical depiction of a witch, wart and all.

The reason they’re often associated with the growths goes hand in hand with the same centuries-old superstitions that gave witches an undeservedly bad rap. 

Alexia Kontolemos