Others determined how to identify and punish witches.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
26 May 2026
Released in 1993, Hocus Pocus is set on a Halloween Night when three 17th century witches — Winnie (Midler), Sarah (Parker), and Mary (Najimy) — are resurrected in Salem, Massachusetts, hundreds of years after their heyday.
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