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mini4x t1_itlvcvu wrote

I still have no idea why people want to go to Salem on Halloween. It's some made up tradition, you can go to the Witch museum anytime and not get trampled.

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wittgensteins-boat t1_itlzp2s wrote

The popular "Bewitched" TV show put Salem on the map, in the 1960s, producing three episodes there.

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lorimar t1_itmlch0 wrote

It's more Hocus Pocus and other modern movies/shows these days. Not many of the tourists I've talked to have even heard of Bewitched anymore.

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wittgensteins-boat t1_itmukbz wrote

That early conscious raising made it possible for future writers to contemplate Salem as an historical scene.

Aided also by Arthur Miller's 1953 dramatization and reaction to Senator Joeseph McCarthy 's "Red Scare" accusations and hearings via "The Crucible", and the film produced, by the same name, in 1996.

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