--- title: Salem Witch Trials Last Executions: Sept. 22, 1692 description: Sept. 22, 1692: Seven women and one man are hanged as witches in Salem canonical: https://time.com/3398176/salem-witch-trials/ author: Jennifer Latson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-22T14:30:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:16:32.674Z article:section: History og:title: Salem Witch Trials Last Executions: Sept. 22, 1692 og:description: A world of witchcraft, where hallucinations are evidence og:url: https://time.com/3398176/salem-witch-trials/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ff2fdc9d849f149/6986a41655a859f4f5a82a68/salem.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Salem Witchcraft og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Salem Witch Trials Last Executions: Sept. 22, 1692 twitter:description: A world of witchcraft, where hallucinations are evidence twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ff2fdc9d849f149/6986a41655a859f4f5a82a68/salem.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Last of the Witch-Trial Hangings > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Jennifer Latson](https://time.com/author/jennifer-latson/) ## Jennifer Latson Sep 22, 2014 2:30 PM UTC  An illustration showing a woman executed by hanging, for the practice of witchcraft, 1692\. Published in 'A Pictorial History of the United States', 1845. An illustration showing a woman executed by hanging, for the practice of witchcraft, 1692\. Published in 'A Pictorial History of the United States', 1845.Interim Archives / Getty Images by [Jennifer Latson](https://time.com/author/jennifer-latson/) ## Jennifer Latson Sep 22, 2014 2:30 PM UTC It was easy to be declared a witch in Salem in 1692: All you had to do was deny that witches existed. After a number of the town’s teenagers began to hallucinate and convulse, bark like dogs and run around on all fours, two magistrates were tasked with rooting out the evildoers behind the bizarre afflictions. The men invented their own methods for detecting witchcraft, according to TIME’s 1949 [review](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,888663-1,00.html) of the book _The Devil in Massachusetts:_ --- > “” --- In practice, suspicion fell even more broadly. In the absence of a devil’s mark or neighborly mischief, anyone who stood up to authorities and publicly questioned their actions was likely to be Salem’s next top suspect. Such was the case with Martha Cory, “a hearty matron who had rashly asserted she didn’t believe in witches,” and who appeared soon afterward in a stricken girl’s vision. Since the girl was in church at the time, half the town heard her scream, “Look! There sits Goody Cory on the beam, suckling a yellow bird betwixt her fingers!” Cory (also spelled Corey) was among the seven women and one man hanged as witches on this day, Sept. 22, in 1692\. It was the last round of executions before the tide of public opinion turned and the trials began to subside. They had claimed 20 lives. Although Cory had urged her examiners not to believe “all that these distracted children say,” according to Charles Upham’s book [_Salem Witchcraft_](http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17845/17845-h/salem2-htm.html#PART%5FTHIRD)_,_ the jury was less moved by her words than by the convulsions of her accusers while she spoke. In the midst of the proceedings, one woman threw her shoe at Cory, hitting her “square on the head.” Cory’s husband Giles, who defended his wife and was therefore labeled a “dreadful wizard,” had been executed three days earlier — pressed to death under a pile of stones. In the backwards justice of the trials, those who confessed were spared, while those who protested their innocence were often killed. Giles Cory, who refused to plead guilty or even to stand trial before a corrupt court, endured the torture of a slow death instead. Asked for his confession whenever a new layer of stones was added to the pile, he is [reported](http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/gilescoreypage.htm%29) to have answered only, “More weight!” **_Read a 1999 story about the rise of Wiccanism in the armed forces:_** [I Saluted a Witch](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,991417-1,00.html) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3398176/salem-witch-trials/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3398176/salem-witch-trials/"},"headline":"The Last of the Witch-Trial Hangings","datePublished":"2014-09-22T14:30:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:16:32.674Z","description":"Sept. 22, 1692: Seven women and one man are hanged as witches in Salem","url":"https://time.com/3398176/salem-witch-trials/","keywords":["Law","U.S."],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ff2fdc9d849f149/6986a41655a859f4f5a82a68/salem.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jennifer Latson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jennifer-latson/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ff2fdc9d849f149/6986a41655a859f4f5a82a68/salem.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Salem Witchcraft","caption":"Salem Witchcraft","creditText":"Interim Archives / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/law/","name":"Law"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3398176/salem-witch-trials/","name":"The Last of the Witch-Trial Hangings"}}]}] ```