Salem, MA

23 October, 2010　Salem, MA

ハロウィーンが近いので、魔女裁判で有名なSalemを訪れた

予想にたがわず、すごい人出、あちこちで交通渋滞、駐車場を探すのは苦労します

でもひとたび町に入ると、通りではいろんな怪人や魔女、海賊までが訪問者を楽しませてくれる

  
みごとなパフォーマーもいる！

魔女の博物館や美術館、蝋人形館、遊園地まであって、

町全体がアミューズメントパークと化している

充分にたのしんで、気分が盛り上がったところで
明日はハロウィーンの飾り付けをしよう！


たくさん写真を撮ったので続きをおたのしみに


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セイラム魔女裁判
アメリカ合衆国ニューイングランド地方のマサチューセッツ州セイラム村（現在のダンバース）で1692年3 月1日にはじまる一連の裁判をいう。　200名近い村人が魔女として告発され、19名が処刑され、1名が拷問中に圧死、5名が獄死した。無実の人々が次々と告発され、裁判にかけられたその経緯は、集団心理の暴走の例として著名である。その審理に当たった判事の一人ジョン・ホーソーンは、アメリカの小説家ナサニエル・ホーソーンの先祖にあたる。（Wikipedia)
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft  in the counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex in colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693. Despite being generally known as the Salem witch trials, the preliminary hearings in 1692 were conducted in a variety of towns across the province: Salem Village, Ipswich, Andover and Salem Town. The best-known trials were conducted by the Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 in Salem Town. Over 150 people were arrested and imprisoned, with even more accused but not formally pursued by the authorities. At least five more of the accused died in prison. All twenty-six who went to trial before this court were convicted. The four sessions of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1693, held in Salem Village, but also in Ipswich, Boston and Charlestown, produced only three convictions in the thirty-one witchcraft trials it conducted. The two courts convicted twenty-nine people of the capital felony of witchcraft. Nineteen of the accused, fourteen women and five men, were hanged. One man, Giles Corey, refused to enter a plea and was crushed to death under heavy stones in an attempt to force him to do so.(Wikipedia)