The Three Causes Of The Salem Witch Trials

Thou Shalt Not Suffer A Witch To Live In Salem Massachusetts twenty people were hanged because Puritans believed everything that the Bible said.One topic that the bible discussed was ¨The devil is real and he is clever¨, the bile discussed that whenever he sees a person weak he can control them. the Bible stated that when someone is weak they can't keep there mind straight and see hallucinations and voices “the devil is the voice”, they hear and they listen and the devil makes them do witchcraft.There was two girls that pretended to be possessed and they accused people.Most of the people they accused were either married or widowed and over the age of forty 90% of the people that were accused and the accusers were female. The
The second cause of the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria involved the “Lying girls”, The lying girls and their erie performances.According to document C (The Examination of Bridget Bishop).The girls started falling into fits as they cried acting like they were being tortured.They were mocking Bridget Bishop by rolling their eyes up and down whenever Bridget would roll her eyes.There is no doubt that Samuel Parris's played favorites because that was his daughter and his niece.That was one of the reasons that led two twenty two deaths. The third cause to the Salem WItch Trials was that the down was divided.The rich and politically powered people lived on the east and the non wealthy and the people who had no political power on the west.According to Paul Boyers notes the west was jealous over the east because they had political power and were very wealthy.The west decided to come up with a plan to accuse people of being witches or warlocks and if people were convinced the people would be