On a good day, or perhaps as an admonition, a Salem witch might be thrown in.
The oak paneling seemed to be pressing him like a Salem witch.
Court conditions verged on the point of ridiculous during the Salem witch trials.
Researchers now suspect that some of the Salem witches may have suffered from Huntington's.
He flees to Providence from the Salem witch trials in 1692.
The old part of the house, the one where the bedrooms are now, is supposed to have been built by one of the Salem witches.
All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine!
History has a name for that time, they call it the Salem Witch Hunts.
The domineering widow seems almost as old as the Salem witch trials and brings more than a little of their spirit into the story.
You had the Salem witches "confessing" they'd embraced Satan before they were put to death.