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    tumbles from ones lips‚ it spreads like a disease throughout the community. The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 was the outcome of multiple factors. These factors include jealousy over people‚ the feel of power/control‚ and the fear and/or anxiety of their surroundings and the threat of punishment. Jealousy provided fuel towards accusing witches by venting ones emotions onto another. The accusers of the Salem Witch Trials were young girls and one woman‚ since the afflicted were so young‚ their own emotions

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    and strike conversations with them‚ that is at least on halloween. In the late 1600s many older men and women were being caught as being “witches” in Salem‚ Massachusetts.These witch trials were being caused by young girls who were pretending just to get ergotism‚ attention‚ and eventually after one lie they got out control really quickly. Witch trials were mainly caused by young girls hallucinating that some people were witches and that they were being attacked by their specter. This hallucination

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    The Salem witch trials scared many people during its time. During this time people accused each other of being witches. Many of the accused were killed because they would not admit to being a witch. The causes of the Salem witch trials were town division‚ lying girls‚ and jealousy. Town division helped spark the horrible events of the Salem witch trials. The town could be divided by race‚ social status‚ or wealth. Document E shows us that the accusers are on one side of the town and the accused

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    The Salem Witch Trial In 1692‚ Salem went through a period of witchcraft and unanswered questions. People were experiencing witchcraft left and right and they did not know what to do about it. The people wanted to know why is it happening‚ what was happening and how to stop it. Salem is located in the United States in Massachusetts. This is located in North America. The Puritans thought of North America as the devils territory. Over a period of time Salem girls started experiencing periods

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    raged through Salem Village in 1692 caused the citizens to accuse and execute each other because of suspected witchcraft. The Salem witch trials‚ a series of court cases regarding the 131 people accused of witchcraft‚ led to twenty-five peoples’ deaths and the arrests of many more (Foulds 258). The trouble first started when two girls acted so strangely that people had no doubts that it was the result of witchcraft. Soon‚ they considered no one safe because anyone might be a witch‚ or may be tormented

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    In Exodus 22:18‚ it proclaims‚ “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live!” In 1692 Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ the Puritans believed every word that the Bible said‚ causing the death of twenty people because they were accused of witchcraft. What caused the panic and alarm that lead to the death of twenty people in Salem? There were three causes: conflict between young girls and older women‚ lying teenagers‚ economic and political power divided between two sides of town. One possible cause could be the conflict

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    This quote shows both the dilemma in the Salem Witch Trials‚ which Arthur Miller set his story in‚ and the era of McCarthyism which he kind of writes about; John was going to confess to being a witch but couldn’t because he didn’t want to ruin his name for his family. He was an innocent man but died because he didn’t confess. This is very similar to what was happening during the 50’s when McCarthyism first started. Arthur Miller’s use of the Salem Witch Trials in the Crucible demonstrates

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    remembering Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne. Since Tituba’s claim that there were more witches in Salem‚ the witch hunt officially began and hysteria beset the

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    Fictions of The Salem Witch Trials The idea of witchcraft has been a controversial topic since the begging of time however‚ witchcraft became better known in 1692‚ with the begging of the Salem witch trials. Many stories have been written about the Salem witch trials. Some are found in journals‚ other stories are exaggerated from those journals. The comparison of historical facts and the play the Crucible are the perfect example of an exaggerated actual event. During the Salem witch trials‚ Tituba

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    In the late 1600’s Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ the Salem Witch Trials was conceivably thought of as terrifying or even unjustified. Left and right‚ convictions of witchcraft were put on other villagers in Salem. Abigail and other girls‚ Tituba‚ Proctor‚ and others are to be blamed for the deaths and events in Salem‚ but Reverend Parris seems to have the bigger faults. Parris’s childish and avaricious characteristics caused the deaths of many innocent people. Reverend Parris enacted an essential role in

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