Salem Witches Refuse to be Hanged Twice

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Farrah Fletcher, copy editor

While visiting Salem, Massachusetts, last summer, Andrew Fridecsky, purchased a poster with the names of all the people who were executed for witchcraft in Salem in 1692. He gave it to Mrs. Winton since he had studied The Crucible in her classroom.

Mrs. Winton showed it to her students and hung it on the wall with magnetic tape. The next morning, she found the poster on the floor, but the tape still attached to the wall. She and her students joked about the witches coming off the wall.

After this happened, she pressed the tape onto the poster between two boxes of heavy books. The tape seemed to be well attached, so she hung the poster again. The next morning the poster was on the floor again.

The third time she used a hot glue gun to attach the tape. The next day the poster was hanging upside down (possibly as a result of a prank), but currently the poster is slowly peeling away from the wall.