Was Anyone Really Burned at the Stake During the Salem Witch Trials?

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When you think about people disposing of witches a few hundred years ago, you probably imagine a woman tied to a stake jutting up from a pile of smoking wood. The burning of witches has become so ingrained in witch-hunt canon that its a cliché. But the truth of the matter is that the burning of people convicted of being witches wasnt all that common in England. By the time the colonies were set up, English law forbade burning people alive, which meant that no witches could be burned in the American colonies as a result of the Salem witch trials, contrary to what is often depicted.\r
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