When a person first thinks of the word "witch" the first thing that comes to mind is the silly old woman who wears all black, wart on her nose, and rides a broom. As strange as it is, there was a time when the joke wasn't so funny. In 1692 there was an event called the Salem witch trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts. Nineteen men and women who were wrongly accused of committing witchcraft …showed first 75 words of 1439 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1439 total…and when they felt threaten the easiest thing to do was to get rid of it by killing it off. The witch trails of 1692 are a great history lesson, like Douglas Linder stated, "The witches disappeared, but witch hunting in America did not. Each generation must learn the lessons of history or risk repeating its mistakes. Salem should warn us to think hard about how to best safe guard and improve our system of justice."