Salem Witchcraft Trials Victims: A Tribute with Donna Shimko

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FACT:  None of the people accused, tried, imprisoned, murdered and otherwise persecuted at Salem were witches.
For a different perspective and voice about the Salem Witch Trials, be at the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick on Thursday, 10.23 at 7.30PM!
When I visited Salem last year, I immersed myself in the real history of the Salem Witch Trials.  I was most moved by the Memorial Ledges, which is a solemn and stark tribute to each person who was unjustly executed in the shameful season that was 1692.
I also kept seeing myself in the places of the Victims, deeply moved by their sparse and painful chronicles.  On my return to Cleveland, I wrote my Salem Victims’ Tribute ‘zine,  to pay my own tribute to each of those persecuted people, whose voices and stories were silenced or deleted by the people in charge.
I will share my Tributes to some of the falsely accused.  I will also provide background about the cold, fearful, threatening atmosphere that was 1692 Salem and factors that led to the Trials.
We will participate in the memorial, the tribute, the requiem to the nineteen persons who were cruelly imprisoned and executed, the five who died in gaol, and to two people who survived the Trials with their lives, but paid a fearful price.
There will also be a candle ceremony to pay tribute to all those people – past and present – who suffer persecution unjustly.

Please join us for this tribute and requiem, and to keep lit the flame of justice!