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How Rye Bread May Have Caused the Salem Witch Trials: Media

The real devil in Salem may have lived on the supper table.

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Did Rye Bread Cause the Salem Witch Trials?
The root of Salem's problems could have been at the supper table.
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Salem witch trials
Accusations condemning people as witches were rampant during the Salem witch trials.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, edited by Charles Dudley Warner, 1896