I don’t buy it
We visited the totally ignored Bewitched statue just before we left. Partly out of curiosity – what’s all the hubbub about – and partly because we were already headed that direction.

As you can see – it’s just a small little thing. Like the opening from the old TV show.





It was controversial in Salem because a lot f people were upset about the statue. Basically, they felt like the Witch Trials were a horrible black mark in the history of the town and that the statue doesn’t honor that (the 16 or so people put to death) and instead mocks it with a fake TV witch who wasn’t even from Salem.

At the time, one guy appeared on TV saying that erecting the statue was in poor taste – along the lines of putting up a statue of Colonel Klink at Auschwitz. While rather extreme, I could understand the argument.

Until I actually got to Salem.

Here’s the thing – there’s tacky, gaudy, and totally non-reverential witch stuff ALL OVER that town. Seriously. Everywhere. All the time.





There are probably like 20 different witch-oriented spaces – maybe more. There are wax museums, tarot card shops, palmistry places, haunted tours, spiritualists and more mounted witch dummies parked outside of shops that you can shake a stick at. This is what people come to the town for – to see the “witches” and their many wares.

And if you’re a bit higher minded, you can see a fantastic museum – then get your picture taken with Witchy-poo.