Witch-trial sites
Where the persecutions happened, and where the executed stayed — the trial sites of the great hunts. Open the world map to see them plotted.
The Bell Witch — Adams, Tennessee
A · Adams, Tennessee, United States — America's most documented poltergeist case — a four-year entity siege (1817–1821) endorsed by a future president.…
The Heksenwaag of Oudewater — The Scale That Saved Witches
B · Oudewater, Utrecht, Netherlands — A sixteenth-century weigh-house in a small Dutch town where people accused of witchcraft could be officially weighed — and where a certificate of honest weight was, by imperial privilege, proof of inn…
Lysa Hora — The Witches' Bald Mountain
B · Kyiv, Ukraine — The bald hill above the Lybid river that Kyiv tradition names as the witches' sabbath ground — the local instance of the Slavic Bald Mountain that Gogol wrote onto the world's stage — now a landscape …
Pendle Hill — Witch Country
A · Lancashire, United Kingdom — In 1612 ten 'witches' were hanged after England's most famous witch trial — their ghosts still draw hunters each Halloween.…
Salem Witch Trials sites
S · Salem, MA, United States — The 1692 trials: 20 executions and a town permanently haunted by its own past — Gallows Hill, the Witch House, and the Old Burying Point.…