Beelzebub was also imagined to be sowing his influence in Salem, Massachusetts: his name came up repeatedly during the Salem witch trials, the last large-scale public expression of witch hysteria in North America or Europe, and afterwards, Rev. Cotton Mather wrote a pamphlet entitled Of Beelzebub and his Plot.
He was a direct descendant of Joseph Eveleth, juror in the Salem Witch trial of John Proctor, and a second cousin of Theophilus Parsons, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
The crew are transported into Salem during the middle of a witch trial where Lucien is the creature placed on trial by the Megans.
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In 1683, eleven years before the Salem Witch Trials, Mary Webster, wife to William Webster son of the former governor of Connecticut and a founder of the very town of Hadley John Webster, was accused and acquitted of witchcraft.
That year, she also appeared in the television film Salem Witch Trials as Mary Walcott (here called May Walcott), and has starred in films such as Rhinoceros Eyes (2003) and Monkey Warfare (2006) for which she won a Vancouver Critics Award and You Are Here (2011).
Local histories suggest that the house may have been built as early as 1675, and that it may have been home for a time to Elizabeth Proctor, one of the accused in the Salem witch trials.
In America, Giles Corey was pressed to death on September 19, 1692, during the Salem witch trials, after he refused to enter a plea in the judicial proceeding.
The Saltonstall family is a Boston Brahmin family from the U.S. state of Massachusetts, notable for having had a family member attend Harvard University from every generation since Nathaniel Saltonstall—later one of the more principled judges at the Salem Witch Trials—graduated in 1659.
George Jacobs, Sr. (died 1692), hanged for witchcraft in Salem witch trials
She was portrayed by actress Shirley MacLaine in the 2002 CBS miniseries "Salem Witch Trials".
William Bassett, Jr. (1624–1703), whose daughter Elizabeth Proctor was accused of witchcraft in the 1692 Salem Witch Trials
The Witch House, the home of Judge Jonathan Corwin and the only remaining structure in Salem, Massachusetts with direct ties to the Salem witch trials of 1692