The Magically Wicked Society

08/17/2026

So why WERE women accused?

This is one of the most interesting parts of the history of the Salem Witch Trials.

Puritan and strongly patriarchal society's ignorantly viewed women as more susceptible to temptation (laughable), spiritual weakness (🤦‍♀️), and the "influence" of the Devil.

Even though being female alone did not cause someone to be accused, the reasoning that most of society GAVE for the accusations were quite, well..... ridiculous:

*Personal disputes
*Property disagreements
*Family conflicts
*Community rivalries
*Reputation
*Poverty or social isolation
*Unusual behavior
*Previous accusations
*Arguments between neighbors
*Fear surrounding illness or unexplained events
*Suspicion toward people who did not conform to community expectations

And once fear and accusations began spreading, an accusation against one person could lead to accusations against several others, etc..

08/14/2026

How many women were prosecuted in The Salem Witch Trials?

There are actually several categories of accusation:

*Accused
*Arrested
*Tried
*Convicted
*Executed.

More than 200 people were accused of witchcraft and the overwhelming majority of those accused were women.

Approximately 30 people were convicted, while 19 people were executed by hanging. 19!

Giles Corey died during the proceedings.

Of the 20 people that died, the victim count was:

*14 Women and 6 Men.

So the Salem crisis was overwhelmingly directed toward women among those accused and prosecuted, but it was not exclusively a persecution of women.

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08/12/2026

Timeline of the Salem Witch Trials:

1641 to 1648 — Witchcraft becomes a capital crime.

The law specifically cited Biblical passages, including Exodus and Deuteronomy, as authority for punishing people "believed" to be witches.

Religion and fear had already designed the framework.

January to February of 1692 — The accusations began. In Salem Village, several young girls began experiencing "symptoms" and "behaviors".
The girls claimed that they were being afflicted by supernatural forces.

The first people accused included:

Tituba, an enslaved Indigenous/Afro-Caribbean woman in the household of Samuel Parris, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne.

Tituba eventually confessed to witchcraft (Was it actual witchcraft? Or a summon of humane behavior from the devine?) and described an alleged conspiracy involving other witches.
Her confession helped transform individual suspicions into a much larger perceived conspiracy.

March 1692 — Accusations spread. The accusations expanded rapidly.People began randomly accusing neighbors, relatives, and other community members. Importantly, being accused did not necessarily mean the person was actually tried or executed. Many people were arrested, imprisoned, questioned, or accused without ultimately being convicted.

The accusations also moved beyond Salem Village into surrounding communities.

Spring 1692 — Fear becomes a community crisis
As accusations multiplied, the alleged witches were increasingly portrayed as part of a larger Satanic conspiracy. One of the most controversial forms of evidence became known as “spectral evidence.” This involved an accuser claiming that they had seen the accused person's spirit or apparition attacking or tormenting them.
The problem was obvious: the supposed apparition could not be independently observed.
Nevertheless, the special court permitted such testimony.

May 1692 — Governor Phips arrives
A new provincial government had been established under a new royal charter.
Governor William Phips created a special court known as the Court of Oyer and Terminer to deal specifically with the witchcraft accusations.
The court was given authority to hear and determine the cases.This became the principal judicial body responsible for the prosecutions during the most intense period of the crisis.

June 1692 — Executions begin
Bridget Bishop became the first person executed during the Salem trials. She was hanged on June 10, 1692. The ex*****ons continued throughout the summer.

July 1692 — More ex*****ons. Several additional people were executed. The accused were overwhelmingly women, although men were also prosecuted and executed.This is important because Salem was not exclusively a persecution of women.

August 1692 — Executions continue
More accused people were convicted and executed. Among them was George Burroughs, a former minister. His ex*****on demonstrated how far the accusations had spread: even a man who had previously held a religious position could become a target.

September 1692 — The final ex*****ons.
The final ex*****ons took place on September 22, 1692.

Among those executed were:
Martha Corey
Mary Eastey
Alice Parker
Ann Pudeator
Margaret Scott
Wilmot Redd
Mary Parker
Samuel Wardwell

By this point, public confidence in the proceedings was beginning to weaken.

One of the most famous victims was Giles Corey, an elderly farmer. Unlike the others, Corey refused to enter a plea to the charges against him.
Because of his refusal, the court subjected him to a procedure intended to force him to plead.
He died without entering a plea. He was not burned, nor was he hanged. His death occurred through judicially imposed pressing.

October 1692 — The special court is dissolved
Governor Phips eventually became concerned about the reliability of the proceedings.
In particular, the increasing reliance on spectral evidence had become problematic. Phips dissolved the Court of Oyer and Terminer in October.

At this point, 19 people had been executed by hanging.

November 1692 — A new court.
The Massachusetts General Court established a new Superior Court of Judicature.This court would handle the remaining witchcraft cases.The new system was much more cautious about supernatural testimony.

January 1693 — Trials resume. The new court began hearing the remaining cases. It rejected spectral evidence as a sufficient basis for conviction. The results were dramatically different.

Of 26 people tried, 23 were found not guilty, while the remaining three were eventually pardoned by Governor Phips.

This rapid change demonstrates just how important the rules of evidence were to the outcome.

08/11/2026

The Salem Witch Trials: A History

The Salem witch trials were a series of prosecutions for alleged witchcraft that took place primarily in Salem Village and surrounding communities in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–1693. They emerged from a deeply religious Puritan society in which many people believed that Satan and supernatural forces were active in everyday life.

The crisis ultimately resulted in more than 200 people being accused, approximately 30 being convicted, and 20 people dying as a direct result of the prosecutions: 19 were executed by hanging and Giles Corey died under judicial pressure from the Massachusetts Government.

Who was responsible?

I suppose the responsible answer to this, is that we shouldn't place responsibility on an entire modern religious denomination. The people involved belonged primarily to the Puritan religious culture of colonial New England, which was closely intertwined with government and law.
There were several layers of responsibility:
Puritan ministers and religious leaders helped create the theological environment in which witchcraft was understood as a real and extremely serious threat.
Local accusers and community members brought allegations forward.
Magistrates and judges investigated, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced accused people.
Colonial Governor William Phips established the special Court of Oyer and Terminer, although he eventually dissolved it when concerns about the proceedings grew.
The colonial legislature and legal system had already made witchcraft a capital offense under Massachusetts law, based explicitly on Biblical passages.

So, while religion was central to the worldview behind the crisis, the ex*****ons were carried out through a colonial legal system—not by a church conducting its own ex*****ons.

It's important to remember that there is a wide misconception on what "witch craft" is. Historically, one could be deemed a "witch" by simply having the ability to heal with one's hands, or with herbs.

Biblical translations have altered due to man's ego and yearning for power. Books have been removed, rewritten, and designed to advance those in power.

If we're going to speak truthfully on the matter of Christ's existence- it needs to represent the reality of the way he lived his life, loved, became angry, and how/ where he worshipped.

Christ was not a clean white man holding a lamb. Christ was a dark skinned rebel who stood up for the meek and tired. He roamed nature in search of truth and insisted on those in power being held accountable for their actions.

He overturned tables. And that's what we should all be doing.

07/14/2026

The Magically Wicked Society.

Somewhere along our journey, we were taught that magic belonged to fairy tales. We were taught to fear what we could not understand and to question life, less than we dreamt about it's potential.

Here, We disagree.

The Magically Wicked Society was born from a different truth—a truth as ancient as the rivers that carve the mountains and as new as every story yet to be written.

We believe that wonder was never lost. We simply stopped looking for it.

We believe that nature is our teacher, kindness is our compass, and that every journey has something sacred to offer those who are willing to listen.

We believe that Mother Earth remembers.

We believe that Father Time makes sure of it.

This is a place for the wanderers and the protectors. For the dreamers and the storytellers. For the curious souls who understand that learning should never end and that magic can still be found in both ancient forests and modern creations.

Creation itself is magic.

A lantern lighting the darkness was once an impossible idea. A ship crossing an endless sea was once unimaginable. Books preserve the wisdom of generations long after their voices have fallen silent. Human hands have always transformed imagination into something beautiful.
The tools may change, but the magic never does.
No creation is born perfect. It becomes what we choose to make of it.

Meet Alarica.
For over five centuries, legends have claimed that she was a witch, but she was a warrior of truth. They claimed that she was crazy, but she was a protector of her sixth sense. She was and continues to be guardian of a womans natural born ability to guide & heal.

Alarica can now proudly share her story of being "wicked" with the world.

Alarica is the Eternal Wayfinder—a seeker of truth through travel, nature, and instinct.

She walks beside wolves and beneath moonlit skies not because she commands the world around her, but because she understands she belongs to it.
She listens before she speaks.
She protects before she conquers.
She learns before she teaches.

Her greatest gift has never been immortality or magic. It is her willingness to remain teachable.
She knows that wisdom may be found within the whisper of the wind, the pages of an ancient book, the laughter of a child, or the kindness of a stranger met upon a distant shore.

She believes that intuition is not weakness, but remembrance.
That compassion is courage.
That protecting innocence is among the greatest purposes we may ever be given.

And she believes that humanity's greatest creations—whether born from ink, imagination, art, or innovation—can become extraordinary things when guided by wisdom and compassion.

For centuries, the world has called extraordinary women wicked when it could not understand their gifts.

We choose another definition.

To us, Wicked means courageous enough to wander.
Wise enough to remain curious.
Compassionate enough to protect what is sacred.
And brave enough to become exactly who we were meant to be.

This is not a place of perfection.
It is a place of becoming.
So take the hidden path.
Listen to the stories carried by the wind.
Protect what is sacred.
Create beautiful things.
Leave people, places, and creatures better than you found them.

And when you find yourself standing at the edge of the unknown, remember that a Wayfinder never walks alone.
The Earth remembers. The animals know. The spirit guides.

The magic is just beginning.

Welcome to The Magically Wicked Society.

07/10/2026

We believe adventure changes people.
We believe every journey tells a story.
We believe magic isn't fantasy......
It's wonder. ✨️
It's exploration. ✨️
It's curiosity. ✨️

We believe that exploring the history BEHIND the magic, is JUST as important as visiting the parks.

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07/10/2026

👻 Where are all of my "theme parks at Halloween" lovers?

🖤 Are you a Disney at Halloween fan?
🖤 A Universal Orlando Resort or Universal Studios Hollywood fan?
🖤 Both? Or just a Halloween in general fan?

👻 Celebrations start in Orlando next month! Is that BONKERS!?

07/10/2026