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From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick)
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Subject: Re: Misogyny (Burning Brides)(Salem body count)
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>I don't remember how many actually died or were killed.

From "how New England Happened" by Christina Tree:

Found guilty and hanged : 14 women, 5 men        [do pedants say 'pendent'?]
Pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea : 1 man
Pleaded guilty, therefore reprieved : 55 (sexes unspecified)
Awaiting trial : about 150.

Tree points out that the special courts, originally ordered by Governor Phips,
were eventually cancelled by him around the time that his wife's name came up.

Not quite irrelevantly, there were two witchcraft trials in Plymouth Colony,
(as opposed to Massachusetts Bay) and both (female) defendants were found not
guilty. In fact, in one case, the woman who brought the accusation ended up
getting tried for slander.