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Massachusetts Bay began executing people for witchcraft in Boston, and the surrounding towns including Cambridge, Charlestown and Dorchester, almost fifty years before the Salem Witch Trials. These executions are much lesser-known, totaling less than half the number that took place in Salem in one year alone, but the stories behind them deserve to be told. Join historian Alyssa Conary for an introduction to the women convicted and executed for witchcraft in seventeenth-century Boston. Learn their names and their stories, and…