Mary Webster

Mary Webster was accused of witchcraft in the 1680s in Puritan Hadley, Massachusetts, and sentenced to be hanged from a tree in 1685. According to one of several accounts, she was left hanging all night. It is known that when she was cut down she was still alive and lived for another 11 years. She was an ancestor of Canadian author Margaret Atwood, who made Webster the subject of her poem "Half-Hanged Mary," and dedicated her novel The Handmaid's Tale to her.

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• Story of Mary Webster

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