Profs & Pints Baltimore: Early American Witch Hunts
Sun, Oct 19
|Guilford Hall Brewery
Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “Early American Witch Hunts,” a look at the colonial hysteria that led to the tragedy of Salem, with Richard Bell, professor of history at the University of Maryland.
Time & Location
Oct 19, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Guilford Hall Brewery, 1611 Guilford Ave, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
About the event
Event Details
Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “Early American Witch Hunts,” a look at the colonial hysteria that led to the tragedy of Salem, with Richard Bell, professor of history at the University of Maryland.
[Doors open at 3. The talk starts at 4:30. The room is open seating.]
Salem, 1692: Two young girls living in the household of one of the town’s ministers are acting strangely and having fits. A doctor is summoned and tells the minister that his girls are suffering from the action of the Devil’s ‘Evil Hand’ upon them. News of the doctor’s diagnosis quickly spreads and confirms what many in town are already whispering: These girls are the victims of witchcraft. They have been cursed by witches living somewhere in Salem.
The notorious Salem witch hunts that resulted were hardly isolated incidents. Instead, they marked the culmination of anti-witch hysteria that had crossed the Atlantic…