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The Queen and King of Hell in Salem

In February 1692, two little girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts began to act strangely. A local doctor examined them and could not find any natural cause for their behavior. This led Salem Village and other nearby towns down a dark road of fear and insanity. Over the next seven months, legal authorities did 20 people to death and jailed more than 100 others for practicing witchcraft.During the year of 1692, a small band of accusers identified between 150 and 200 persons as witches, but they did more than that. They told the judges that there was a hierarchy of witches operating within the Devil’s cult. The accusers named those at the top of the witch ranking system. Those top leaders, the accusers called the Queen and King of Hell.This book relates the true story of the lives, convictions, and executions of the alleged Queen and King of Hell, Martha Carrier and George Burroughs. The injustice done to the two people, who most likely met for the first time aboard a little wagon as they rode to the gallows, serves as a reminder to us never to assume that the government has our best interests at heart when it dispenses “justice.”Read more

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