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Agreeing with the other commenter: From the evidence I've seen, it looks like if it *was* confiscated by the authorities (and that's a big if, it very often wasn't) it went to the local authorities. Now, there's obviously a conversation to be had about how unfair that was, but it still isn't the same as "I want that guy's land so I'll accuse him of witchcraft". Though witch trials were obviously ridiculous, they still took place within a legal framework. And, the law clear - property passes onto heirs, it has never passed onto accusers. Edit: I looked up two of the people I could find actual results for what happened to the land for; both stayed in the family. [Source 1](https://salemwitchmuseum.com/locations/rebecca-nurse-homestead/) and [source 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jacobs_%28Salem_witch_trials%29) - the second one doesn't directly state it, but he was buried on his own farm, which is a clear indicator that it remained in his family's possession.

Sometimes they were confiscated by the authorities and in most of those cases later returned to the family. Outside of niche anecdotal stories the accuser never gained anything else than potential social leverage and/or removal of a rival or similar. The idea that private accusers were per default given the land and possessions of the accused is absolutely bordering on pure myth. Economic motives weren't even the primary driving factor behind the vast majority of accusations outside of specific cases.