Salem Witch Trials

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in No-Maj colonial Massachusetts between in 1692-1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of them women.

The Salem witch trials were a major traumatic event in the history of American wizard-No-Maj relations. The lobby of the MACUSA, in the Woolworth Building in New York, features four gilt statues of phoenixes paying homage to the victims of the Salem witch trials.