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As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

In 1647, Alse (Alice) Young of Windsor, Connecticut was hanged on Hartford’s Meeting House Square—the first recorded witchcraft execution in colonial America. Sparse records and a deadly local epidemic frame her case, which foreshadowed Connecticut’s quieter, decades-long witch persecutions long before Salem. Centuries later, Windsor (2017) and the State of Connecticut (2023) formally exonerated those condemned—finally restoring Alse Young’s name.

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Research:

https://jud.ct.gov/lawlib/Notebooks/Witchcraft/witches.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alse_Young

https://connecticuthistory.org/alse-young-executed-for-witchcraft-today-in-history/

https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/cover-connecticut-witch-hysteria-1647-63/

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/alse-young/

https://www.windsorhistoricalsociety.org/exoneration-of-two-of-windsors-accused-witches/

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Sarah and Tobie xx

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