NOTE: She is currently framed. Let me know if you would like her off of the frame. DR. APPLES’ LEGEND STATES his mother was taken from him and replaced with a doll on a pink pillow. Every year, he is presented a doll similar to the likings of his mother. This is the first doll he received. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the disappearance of his mother. 13. READY FOR THE WITCH HUNT FOR MANY, 17th-century Salem, Mass., is the origin story for our modern definition of witch hunting. The hysteria-fed execution of 14 women and six men for witchcraft in the Puritan colony was a ready-made metaphor for any unforgiving, evidence-scant campaign against a group of people with unpopular views.