Salem Quicky Witchy Tour

05/03/2026

04/24/2026

Pre-dawn Salem in the fog.

03/09/2026

03/05/2026

A fella from Northern Ireland on The Witch Museum's page alerted us to the fascinating last Irish trial of an accused witch only a few years after the Salem Trials.
"Over here, (Northern Ireland),when this [memorial] was put up, local politicians insisted on the wording being changed to delete the words, "Today the community recognises your innocence" and one tried to fight its er****on entirely, on the grounds that maybe they WERE witches, saying 'I remain to be convinced that they were not guilty of devil worship.". 🙁 🙁 🙁 "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islandmagee_witch_trial

02/27/2026

Tho the facade was remodeled in the Victorian Gothic Revival era, inside it's a colonial era house. The Pickering House is a great Salem treasure.

02/18/2026

Have you ever heard the story of Candy of Salem Town?

An enslaved woman from Barbados, Candy resided in what is today the modern city of Salem under the ownership of Margaret Hawkes. Both she and her enslaver were accused witchcraft in the summer of 1692 and swiftly arrested.

When questioned by the magistrates, Candy told her examiners that Hawkes made her a witch and forced her to sign her name in the Devil’s book. Her interrogators demanded she reveal how she hurt the afflicted girls.

In response, a deputy escorted her back to her lodgings so she could retrieve several rags and a handkerchief tied around a piece of cheese and some grass. Following their orders, she offered these items as poppets, a sort of doll used to inflict harm upon an unsuspecting victim.

The magistrates experimented with the "poppets" on the spot-- burning a rag, plunging another into water, and forcing Candy to eat the grass. The treatment of the rags appeared to produce a result, as the afflicted screamed that they felt burned and drowned. Candy was placed in jail to await trial.

Though indicted when she came to trial in January of 1693, she was ultimately found not guilty and released from prison. As the Court of Oyer and Terminer had been disbanded in October, she faced a more moderate court hesitant to issue guilty verdicts.

Little is known as to what became of Candy in the years that followed. There are no known records to confirm if she returned to the home of Margaret Hawkes after claiming that her mistress forced her to become a servant of Satan and taught her to use witchcraft. To suggest that her enslaver may have chosen to sell her to another individual, like the fate that befell Tituba, would not be farfetched.

Like so many other enslaved men and women, she disappeared from local records, further details of her life lost to our knowledge.

02/16/2026

Snowy Salem. 🌨️❄️🌨️

02/14/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/178C4Qud74/

02/11/2026

A flaky midnight in Olde Salem Towne.

01/24/2026

We want to see the Wicked Witch of the West Barbie! 🧙‍♀️