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Witch Trials: Connecticut Was Hanging Witches Long Before Salem Did
Author: Brynn Mandel Source: Republican-American (CT)
Title: WITCH TRIALS: CONNECTICUT WAS HANGING WITCHES LONG BEFORE SALEM DID
They called Elizabeth Goodman a witch.
In Colonial Connecticut, stories swirled about the old woman who lived with the New Haven Colony's then-deputy governor: Goodman muttered to herself. She accused others of witchery. She sinisterly knew about unseen figs tucked in one woman's pocket. Another woman complained that after Goodman tried buying her chickens, they died and when they cut open the birds, they found snarls of worms.
Beer, it happens, figured prominently into accounts of the old woman's odd behavior, rehashed by genealogists and historians in the annals of the State Library.
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