The Salem Witch Trials (February to October 1692) comprise the largest witch-hunt in North American history. In February 1692 in the town of Salem,Massachusetts, two children in the house of the Reverend Samuel Parris—nine-year-old Betty Parris and her eleven-year-old cousin Abigail Williams—began acting very strangely. They ran around the house, flapping their arms, screaming “Whish,Whish,Whish