In the British colony‚ Massachusetts‚ witchcraft hysteria broke out between February 1692 and May 1693‚ resulting in the execution of twenty people and the jailing of 342 people. The Salem Witch Trials began after young girls in Salem claimed to be possessed by the Devil and started holding local women of Salem accountable of witchcraft. The effects the Salem Witch Trials had on the colony were separation of the church and the state and mass hysteria. In the 17th century‚ witchcraft was a serious
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The Salem Witch Trials began in spring 1692 in Salem Village‚ which is now known as Danvers. Believing in the supernatural was common in colonial New England since the 14th century after it first emerged in Europe. People believed specifically that the devil would give certain people‚ namely witches‚ the power to hurt others in exchange for their loyalty. Additionally‚ there were other recent events‚ such as a British war against France‚ a smallpox epidemic‚ fears of attacks from neighboring Native
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Script: Today‚ we see the salem witch trials as being one of the biggest misunderstandings in American history and is still widely talked about however people are still not fully aware of what actually took place. So … what is the salem witch trials? The Salem Witch Trials starts off with an English Colony moving to America and starting the Massachusetts Bay Colony. During this time many people had brought the belief in witchcraft from england. There was a lot of anxiety amongst the settlements
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Salem Witch Trials Colonial times; a time without the technology we have today. It was a simpler time‚ with log cabins and woven clothes galore. It would seem like an ordinary‚ peaceful day‚ with the townsfolk doing their whereabouts. Nothing would seem to ever go wrong in this placid village. However‚ things took a turn for the worst. Groups of people began to suffer violent contortions and uncontrollable outburst of screaming. Later‚ these people would claim to be under the spell of witchcraft
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HATHORNE: Danforth we are intelligent people‚ we can see what is happening in these trials. They said to be foolish. DANFORTH: How dare that be said. There is the Devil in Salem. People in this town are being harmed‚ and it is the fault of all those Devil agents locked up in the gaol. HATHORNE: But the deeds we are doing are reprehensible. Look what we are putting through these people. We say that those who are accused are assumed guilty and forced to confess and failure to do so are executed
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Throughout history there are records of the trials of confessed or accused werewolves. In fact‚ they were hunted‚ questioned and executed in much the same way witches were‚ because often witches were accused of also being werewolves. These so-called “werewolf trials” give us a historical glimpse at rampant human belief in werewolves. Some of the accused were arrested because villagers needed someone to blame for dead livestock or some other explainable occurrence‚ but others were accused because
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The article “Explaining Salem: Calvinist Psychology and the Diagnosis of Possession” talks about the difference between being bewitched with witch craft and being possessed by the Devil‚ himself‚ or some kind of demonic possession. While cases of people being bewitched or possessed was increasing in Salem Village‚ Massachusetts Colony‚ the courts had to determine the difference between the two to make the right decision. There are four available explanations for psychological symptoms. They fall
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The knowledge of the English witch trials comes from the original procedural documents preserved in historical archives and the collection of dozens of accounts of witch trials in the form of prints that circulated in hundreds of copies among the interested readers from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the eighteenth century. At the end of the 16th and early 17th century‚ people of high and low status believed in the ubiquity of witches. They were believed to be everywhere‚ a threat
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Three months ago I confessed that I have a blackened soul‚ darkened by lechery‚ and I am sure I will hang this morning because of it. My puritan town Salem has been driven insane by the hysteria and paranoia associated with witchcraft and the devil‚ created by a group of devious children and perpetuated by various ulterior motives at work. Because of this‚ I have been left with nothing; my wife‚ Elizabeth‚ has been convicted and my neighbours are being killed off daily‚ accused of something that
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WITCH HUNTS THROUGHOUT HISTORY Witch Hunts were one of the harshest hunts in history. Although these hunts were very harsh‚ they were very common. They were a search for people who accused of being a witch. In most cases‚ it was fairly easy to get out of accusations‚ as long as you could blame someone else. “Throughout history there were several cases of these so-called‚ witch hunts.” THE HARTFORD WITCH TRIALS One of the very first witch hunts that happened in America‚ took place in Hartford‚ Connecticut
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