Salem Witchcraft Trials Of 1692 Analysis
I think that there are multiple theories for why the events of 1692 took place. Superstition is the belief in the paranormal connection. In the articles "Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive." Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive. Web. 25 Apr. 2016. "Salem Witch Museum." Salem Witch Museum. Web. 25 Apr. 2016. "The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692." The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692. Web. 25 Apr. 2016. William Griggs, township physician, was summoned. He insinuated that the girls' ailments might have a supernatural source. His analysis was that the girls were bewitched. The people of Salem had a strong faith in the devil, groups among Salem Village partisans and opposition with a nearby Salem Town, a recent small pox epidemic and the intimidation
of violence by combatant communities created a fertile ground for fear and suspicion. This belief in the power of the accused to use their invisible shapes or spectres to torment their victims.
During February of 1692, Betty Parris became abnormally ill. She darted about, plunged under furniture, twisted in pain, and complained of fever. Rumor of witchery amplified and the amount of girls plagued continued to increased, mounting to seven with the addition of Ann Putnam, Elizabeth Hubbard, Susannah Sheldon, and Mary Warren. They started to display comparable strange behavior. The symptoms also could have been caused, as Linda Caporael argued in a 1976 article in Science magazine, by a disease called "convulsive ergotism" caused by consuming rye ingested as a cereal and as a common ingredient of bread infected with ergot. (Ergot is caused by a fungus which invades developing kernels of rye grain, especially under warm and damp conditions such as existed at the time of the previous rye harvest in Salem). Convulsive ergotism causes fierce fits, a crawling feeling on the skin, puking, choking, and deliriums. Other theories that could be sustained as a disorder and a mischievous hoax.
In conclusion, as years passed, apologies were offered, and restitution was made to the victims' families.
of violence by combatant communities created a fertile ground for fear and suspicion. This belief in the power of the accused to use their invisible shapes or spectres to torment their victims.
During February of 1692, Betty Parris became abnormally ill. She darted about, plunged under furniture, twisted in pain, and complained of fever. Rumor of witchery amplified and the amount of girls plagued continued to increased, mounting to seven with the addition of Ann Putnam, Elizabeth Hubbard, Susannah Sheldon, and Mary Warren. They started to display comparable strange behavior. The symptoms also could have been caused, as Linda Caporael argued in a 1976 article in Science magazine, by a disease called "convulsive ergotism" caused by consuming rye ingested as a cereal and as a common ingredient of bread infected with ergot. (Ergot is caused by a fungus which invades developing kernels of rye grain, especially under warm and damp conditions such as existed at the time of the previous rye harvest in Salem). Convulsive ergotism causes fierce fits, a crawling feeling on the skin, puking, choking, and deliriums. Other theories that could be sustained as a disorder and a mischievous hoax.
In conclusion, as years passed, apologies were offered, and restitution was made to the victims' families.