Dr. Katherine Hermes has expanded the history of witch trials in Connecticut. Last year, the historian and publisher of Connecticut Explored Magazine was researching information on the Ancient Burying Ground in Hartford, Connecticut, when she uncovered something surprising - legal documents for a witch trial that occurred long after they supposedly ended in the state. The Full Story host Tom Kuser spoke with Dr. Hermes about her discovery.
A discovery of witch trials
![Dr. Katherine Hermes in Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground at the gravesite of Samuel Wyllys a magistrate on several notorious witchcraft trials in the 1600s. Credit: Julie Winkel (Passed down in the family for nearly 200 years, the Wyllys papers are the source of much of what is known today about CT witchcraft cases.)](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/48c32f5/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2016x1512+0+0/resize/880x660!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa7%2F71%2F7bc00cb542d386a5e1ac981b500b%2F1-best-wyllys.jpg)
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