Hocus Pocus and the Salem Witch Trials: Claimed Connections

You okay?

Hey, remember Hocus Pocus, the witches?

Did you know it could be based on real events?

What do you mean?

Well, there's a town in the US called Salem.

Salem? Isn't that the town in the movie?

Exactly. Same name.

But it could be a coincidence.

Really? Look, in 1693, there were three sisters, Rebecca,

Mary, and Sarah. All three were accused of witchcraft in

that same town.

Wait, Mary and Sarah, like the movie witches?

Exactly, but that's not all. Look.

What is it?

Two of them were hanged in 1963.

And what do they say in the movie when they're hanged?

That they'd come back 300 years later, right in the year the

movie came out, in 1993. But that's not all.

What else?

Remember the actress who plays one of the witches?

You mean Sarah Parker?

Well, in real life, one of her ancestors

was accused of witchcraft in

the Salem trials.

Huh?

It turns out researchers decoded her family tree, and she

descends from Esther Elwell, one of the witches accused in the Salem

trials

in 1693.

So that means...