“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” (Exodus 22:18)‚ this was a passage that the Puritans lived by. The Salem Witch Trials took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692 and claimed the lives of many innocent people. It led to the hangings of almost twenty‚ leaving more than one hundred in prison. A group of young girls in Salem Village accused several local women of witchcraft while being claimed of being possessed by the devil. This is causing a wave of hysteria to spread throughout colonial
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in Salem Village‚ and there is no evidence from the time that Tituba practiced Caribbean black magic‚ yet these trials and executions actually still took place‚ how can you explain why they occurred? The Salem Witchcraft Trials began not as an act of revenge against an ex-lover‚ as they did in The Crucible‚ but as series of seemingly unlinked‚ complex events‚ which a paranoid and scared group of people incorrectly linked. And while there were countless other witchcraft trials‚ Salem trials remain
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The Mystery of the Salem Witchcraft Trials In a plain meeting house in 1692 a woman stands before her judges. She is accused of tormenting innocent girls with an unseen evil. Standing there‚ the poor woman is ridiculed in front of her whole town. She is surrounded by people accusing her of witchcraft based only on the hallucinations of attention-hungry schoolgirls. It makes us wonder was there no justice? It did not matter; superstition got the best of them. Eventually these superstitions claimed
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The noose swung back and forth. Another execution had taken place in Salem in 1692‚ the victim falsely accused of witchcraft. Why were citizens fearful enough the killed others? The Salem witch trials were caused by poor‚ young girls who acted possessed because they were jealous of the rich. These girls hated being bossed around‚ so they pretended to be controlled by witches‚ who were the rich people they were jealous of. According to document B‚ the young girls didn’t want to be told what to
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Once upon a time‚ in a far off place‚ a trial began. The long‚ devastating‚ stupid and insane set of witch trials that lasted over a year. This series of accusations is often known as the Salem Witch Trials. A book that describes this is Witches! The Absolutely True Tale Of Disaster In Salem by Rosalyn Schanzer.The trials took place in Salem‚ Massachusetts where people were accused for the use of witchcraft. However‚ all most of the people Puritans. They believed that there were witches‚ servants
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The Salem Witch Trials The Salem Village that is now found in present day Massachusetts has a haunting past that left colonists dead‚ filled with fear‚ superstition of witches‚ and devils. The Salem Witch Trials was a great disaster that happened in early colonial days. The Colony was one of the puritan colonies. This great disaster happened in the year 1692. Due to the fear in the colony a lot of people who were innocent and some that were guilty were put to death. One of the causes of this disaster
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January 1692‚ the colony of Salem‚ Massachusetts would encounter a situation that would change the small colony forever. That year the quiet town would endure a 9-month long span of trials of witchcraft that would leave 200 accused witches and 20 dead. The trials were based on religious beliefs and would separate all the “unholy” citizens from the community. The trials separated the community based on fear and individuals singling out others based on class. The witch-hunts have affected modern society
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The Salem Witch Trials‚ which occurred in the late 1600s‚ was a time of accusation and injustice that taints America’s history. One of the judges responsible for sentencing the accused to death‚ regardless of a lack of evidence‚ was John Hathorne‚ the great-great-grandfather of the famous American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne grew up listening to the stories of his great-great grandfather influencing him to write stories about the Puritan society and the Salem Witch Trials‚ which
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In the late spring of 1962 in a village name Salem a group of young girls claimed to possessed name such as the devil. These young girls accused some of the women’s from the village of doing witchcraft. There were also around 150 mans including the woman’s and children accused of witchcraft leading to nineteen men and women to be hanged. Three reasons why led this people to believe was “the teenage boredom”‚ the stimulation of imaginations of Tituba‚ and a belief that Satan was recruiting witches
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religious views‚ they saw the change that was taking place so they flee from their mother land seeking to purify their beliefs once more. The Salem witch trials were a significant part of history because it showed the government that religious can’t be mixed with social and political rights because of the strict or tight interpretation it provides. The trials were run by multiple factors such as fear from accusation‚ a hunger for power or grater wealth‚ the strict interpretation of the bible set by
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