Talk:Cultural depictions of the Salem witch trials

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I've moved content from the main article here. We should try to format it similar to other Cultural depictions pages, such as Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc. Ogram 12:01, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

19th Century Illustrations

I've started mining 19th century histories and periodicals for illustrations of the episode that are in the public domain because of their age or covered by the Creative Commons license, and uploading them to the MediaWiki Commons with full citations to the originals, and anything I can discern about the identity of the illustrators. I'm not sure if this is the correct place to be putting them, but I think they are important because many of these are reproduced a lot, and their sources aren't always given. I'd like to set the thumbnails up in a gallery, once I have a sufficient number of them, and would appreciate some help doing that from anyone who has more experience in page formatting than I. Ogram 22:25, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

I know how to make a thumbnail gallery, but I didn't know if I could make a thumbnail gallery with captions... Ogram 12:49, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Run a cursor over this Victuallers (talk) 17:30, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

George Jacobs accused by his granddaughter - a reconstruction of his trial by Thompkins. H. Matteson

House of Seven Gables

What about Hawthorne's novel? Supposedly the family of the novel is under a curse because an ancestor had an innocent man hanged during the trials. Though predominantly set in Hawthorne's own day, it represents a 19th century view of the trials: that local feuds and secret economic agendas underlay part of the violence; Hawthorne does not blame religious fanaticism per se. Hawthorne himself was a descendant of a witch-trial judge and brooded on "inherited guilt" CharlesTheBold (talk) 12:23, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Cultural influences

I just wanted to point out the cultural impact the Salem Witch Trials had on other media. Games Workshop's Warhammer Table top game features an entire race/faction rich with the culture and heavy influences of the Salem witch Trials. EA Mythic's Warhammer Online (An online MMORPG spinoff of the classic tabletop game) features a class called witch hunters. Their cosmetic appearance and attitudes borrow heavily from the time period and events (such as the obvious "Puritan" Theme and humorous references to some of the trials). Just for information's sake I'd like to find a place to put all of this. Now I would fully understand anyone who objects to these being put on this page, as neither directly reference the Salem Witch Trials, they merely use a lot of the culture present during the Salem Witch Trials. Now if anybody found my argument in error, or if there already are places that state these points, I apologize for wasting anyone's time. At any rate consider this food for thought. Victis Kato (talk) 05:32, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is set in Boston in the 1640s and is not about witchcraft. Someone more familiar with Seven Gables may want to add that to the list, however, if the above is accurate. 67.182.218.55 (talk) 01:00, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Twilight Zone - A Message from Charity

Not mentioned in the popular culture section, possibly because it relates to witch trials in general, not specifically Salem, but there's a double-story episode of Twilight Zone (Examination Day / A Message from Charity, 1985/6 season) where the second story deals with a modern teenage boy who somehow forms a mental connection with a New England teenage girl who lived almost 300 years ago. Through his eyes, she explores the modern world, and begins to tell her contemporaries what she's seen, whereupon they put her on trial for witchcraft. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndyRaffle (talk • contribs) 13:21, 11 July 2015 (UTC)