You dedicate the Handmaid's Tale to Mary Webster, half-hanged Mary. Who was she. >> Uh, well, she's a relative of Bowers, who was in Massachusetts in the 17th century.She lived in a town called Hadley. She got accused of witchcraft and got taken to Boston, was put on trial, got exonerated. She got off on the charge, but the town's people didn't like the verdict and strung her up anyway and uh came in the morning to cut down the body and she was still alive.So I I expect if they thought that she was a witch ...