Causes And Effects Of The Salem Witch Hunt

The Salem witch hunt was a wave of paranoia and ignorance and caused hundreds of innocent people to die. This started in in the spring of 1692 and did not end until September in 1962 because people really stared to doubt the truthfulness of the trials. The first convicted witch was a woman by the name of Bridget bishop. This was a large impact on history and even had many books such as the crucible and many others. The other main cause is that back in this time most people did not understand things like we do today so they would blame the devil rather than a practical analysis.
This whole thing was set in to commotion by a group of girls who started to point fingers probably because they were not used to having this kind of power. It became such a large issue that a special court had to be made to interrogate these “witches” and anyone who was accused of working with or loving the devil. To be accused there was almost no proof they just took the word of the children saying that the non-afflicted could not see the “spirts” that were being sent out. And things were escalated to a high point when Tituba a girl accused of
Arthur miller himself (the man who wrote the crucible) was brought in front of the court because he was a communist while hen never faced death or anything of those sorts he was considered a public menace. And even if you knew or even liked someone who supported communism would make someone a villain to America. It was also thought that the communists were trying to bring communism into America which scared people this was ridiculous of course to make a difference a lot of government official’s would have to be communists. In relation to the witch trials people were also blindly accused and little proof was needed as people hate anyone who anyone thought might be a