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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The quantity of people charged and arrested in May‚ soared over thirty people. Regardless that the witch hunt started in Salem‚ it swiftly expanded to the neighboring towns‚ and dozens of residents were brought and put on trial in Salem (Brooks). The first person to be brought on trial was Bridget Bishop‚ who had been accused of witchcraft years prior but was vindicated of the offense. Five of the afflicted girls had accused Bridget‚ and in
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that often spirals into a panic. The tragic story of the Salem Witch Trial contains mass hysteria back in 1692. In my two articles “Salem Witch Craft Trial” and “Mass Hysteria in Upstate New York” have similar problems. In both articles I will be explaining how mass hysteria played a key role in both of these issues. In the article “Salem Witch Craft Trial” it tells the history of the mass hysteria behind the whole Salem witch craft trials. The mass hysteria occurred from 1692-1693 and lead to many
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Wicked Girls: A novel of the Salem Witch Trials Wicked Girls: A novel of the Salem Witch Trials by Stephanie Hemphill is a very unique book. It is a fictionalized story about the Salem witch trials based on the real historical characters. This book is written in free verse‚ and told from the perspective of three girls who were actually involved in what happened in Salem; Ann Putnam Jr. who is twelve‚ Mercy Lewis who is seventeen‚ and Margaret Walcott who is also seventeen. They face many challenges
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The Salem Witch Massacre Do you believe in witches? Well the people of Salem did which ended up killing around 20 people and left the early town in hysteria. Whether you believe the tails of the witch trials of Salem or believe it was true however the causes show that‚ most likely‚ the trials were not work of witches or any magic at all. The first cause is what most people the majority of experts agree on which is the girls who started the hysteria‚ Abigail Williams and Betty Paris‚ were faking
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The Salem Witch Trials were a drawn out‚ scary time in the history of Salem‚ Massachusetts. These trials split many families and friends apart. Although witch trials were common back then‚ they have seemed to disappear from the world and the public eye. I.A. The Salem Witch trials started when several young girls accused three townspeople of witchcraft. After that day strange unexplainable events would occur (Curry‚ pg. 4). In the doctor’s view the strange behaviors could not be a result of
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Blanca Hernandez What Caused the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria? “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” (Exodus 22:18); a phrase that the early Puritans took all too seriously in the Salem Witch trials of the 1600’s. The event that led a historical witch hunt and caused the death of many victims would forever leave its print on America. It all began when a group of young girls accused a fortune teller of oppressing them. This would start a snowball effect that would eventually lead to dozens more
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Was the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria a Product of Women’s Search for Power? The Salem Witchcraft Trials was brought on by some young women. They accused many different people of performing witchcraft. Those who said they were innocent were killed and those who said they were guilty were used to help find more witches. Lyle Koehler says “Yes” in his book‚” A Search for Power: The ‘Weaker Sex’ in Seventeenth-Century New England.” He believes that women wanted more power‚ so they pretended to be
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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: Childs Play or Conspiracy? The Salem Witch Trials began in February of 1692 and continued to 1693 taking place in colonial Salem‚ Massachusetts. The birth of a colony in the New World had produced much chaos for its residents due to a lack of survival skills‚ ongoing attacks from the Native Americans‚ illness‚ and the basic elements concerning ones nutritional values and sanitary procedures. The Natives were constantly attacking the colony because of the colonists’ intrusive
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