The Boston Witch Trials Before Salem
Irish-born, Ann Glover was the last person in Boston to be hanged as a witch four years before the Salem trials. Following an argument with the family she worked for, she was accused of causing the children to fall ill. Speaking mostly in Gaelic, she was charged with being a witch as she failed to recite the Lord’s prayer in English, as only a witch could not recite a prayer. The Boston witch craze only sparked a wider influence in Massachusetts.