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Provides Access to Salem Witchcraft Data

v1.0.1 · Jan 14, 2026 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Data related to the Salem Witch Trials Datasets and tutorials documenting the witch accusations and trials centered around Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Originally assembled by Richard B. Latner of Tulane University for his website <https://www2.tulane.edu/~salem/index.html>. The data sets include information on 152 accused witches, members of the Salem Village Committee, signatories of petitions related to the events, and tax data for Salem Village.

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new 1.0.1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.0.1 ← 0.2.0 diff Jan 13, 2026
new 0.2.0 Nov 4, 2020