What Are The Causes Of The Salem Witch Trials

During the spring of 1692 the salem witch trials was caused because many women and men and children had believed that they were possessed by the devil. Many of the accused were put on trial and later hung. If they could not recite the Lord’s prayer then they were considered a witch. Other women who denied they were not possessed by the devil and many others agreed were forgiven of all there sins.

Several different women and kids were caught in the woods dancing naked around a pot of an unknown substance that called the devil. In January 1692, 9 year old Elizabeth Parris and 11 year old Abigail Williams began having fits, and uncontrollable outbursts of screaming. After, many other kids started having the same symptoms. The homeless Sarah Good and the poor, elderly Sarah Osborn are the women the girls accused of bewitching them.
Though Good and Osborn denied what they did, Tituba confessed. Thinking that she could save herself from certain conviction by acting as an informer, she had said there were other witches helping her.

In January 1697, the Massachusetts Court had declared a day of fasting for the tragedy of the Salem witch trials the court later had agreed the trials were unlawful and the leading justice Samuel Sewall publicly apologized for what he had did and what part he took in the bewitching the people and children. The damage to the community spread around. The salem witch trials was an important part of american