NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks with reporter Megan Johnson, who wrote about what it’s like to live in Salem, Mass. — famous for the Salem Witch Trials — during Halloween tourism season.
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SCOTT DETROW, HOST:
It is a pretty good time to be a witch in Salem, Massachusetts, certainly compared to 1692, when dozens of witchcraft claims led to 19 public executions plus other deaths in prison. This was, of course, the Salem witch trials. Over 300 years later, the story is why a different
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