In seventeenth-century New England, virtually everyone believed in witches and hundreds of individuals faced charges of practicing witchcraft, both men and women. Their witchy ways were blamed for calamities ranging from ailing animals to the death of infant children. Many were accused. Many didn’t go to trial. Mary Parsons Bliss was accused due to a variety of issues that plagued her neighbor and resulted in her being arrested. She went to trial in 1656, 1674, and possibly again in 1679... Read more