Age Differences in Suggestibility: Narrowing the Uncertainties

Abstract

In the late seventeenth century the village of Salem, Massachusetts was gripped with what, in retrospect, seems like a series of strange and inexplicable events. During a three-month period in 1691, twenty-one citizens of Salem were accused, tried, and found guilty of practicing witchcraft and sorcery. The accused spanned all ages, social classes, and sexes. All but one were sentenced to death.