Word: witches
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William Russell Burns, 72, grew up reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables. But reading about Salem's history, including the town's 17th-century witch trials, is a little like reading into personal family history for Burns, who traces his roots in Salem, Mass., back more than 350 years...
...great-great-great aunt by the name of Bradbury was found guilty [of witchcraft], but was spared," says Burns. "She would have been Witch No. 20, but for some reason, she was spared the gallows or stoning...
...Second Unitarian Church, to which Burn's family used to belong, has become the Salem Witch Museum, and the Salem Visitors' Center now stands where the Second: Corps Cadets Armory was before it burned down...
Burns says that the city currently does a thriving trade in witch-related T-shirts and other paraphernalia and that tourists are especially interested in this period of the town's history...
Some of those tourists erroneously believe that Roger Conant, the founder of Salem and a surveyor of the town along with John Perkins, was also a witch...