the girls‚ once discovering the sessions accused the slave of being a witch. Then once the behaviors continued to occur‚ the witch trials began. There are many conspiracies as to why the witch hysteria happened. Religious beliefs‚ social class tension‚ and bored girls are to be the cause of the witch hysteria in Salem. One conspiracy for the cause of the witch trials in Salem is religious beliefs. Majority of the citizens in Salem were Puritans who practiced predestination‚ which means they followed
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Salem Witch Trial: Hangings Michelle Woodring Mr. Yates American Literature 1 May 2010 Salem Witch Trial: Hangings Theses— There were many casualties of the Salem Witch Trials and there are still many mysteries today. * Salem History and Background * Witch Craft Starting * Symptoms of Witch Craft * People Accused of Witch Craft * Trials * Hangings * End of the Witch Hunt Michelle Woodring Mr. Yates American Literature 1 May 2010 Salem Witch Trials:
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Brennyn Mackey 2 May 2011 The Secret War of Salem Exposing the Culprit behind the Mass Hysteria The Salem Witch Trials were a series of infamous events that demand an explanation for their occurrence. The trials that took place in 1692 caused neighbors in the community of Salem Village in the colony of Massachusetts to turn on one another out of paranoia‚ accusing one another of witchcraft. According to Carol Karlsen‚ a longtime author of the subject‚ nineteen people were hanged
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Theory of the Salem Witch Trials The Salem Witch Trials were a dark time in the history of America. There were people killed for being a “witch”. Whether they were or not‚ they tested them with various ways of torture. From being hung‚ to being tied to a rock and thrown in a lake; if they survived‚ they were a witch‚ if they died‚ they weren’t. The Puritans came up with many different theories of witchcraft for various problems. Whether it was for the weather‚ lack of crop growth‚ or if someone
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being a witch then you either blamed it on someone else or plead you were innocent. These trials began overwhelming the justice system. The Salem witch trials were a series of cases brought before local magistrates and the county court of trials in 1692. To understand the events of the Salem witch trials‚ it is necessary to understand that the people in Salem thought differently and lived differently than people from the 21st century. A strong belief in the devil‚ factions among Salem Village
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Lyle Koehler argues that the Salem Witch Trials began due to witch hysteria caused by the fits of the young women being affected by witchcraft. They were given power to accuse the witches and used their power to attack their oppressing forces‚ such as authority figures. The act of accusing people of being witches was a scapegoat in order gain and retain power in a situation where people felt powerless. They also targeted nontraditional women as they were easier to justify. Many people were accused
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in Salem‚ Massachusetts in 1692? The answer to that question is still as talked about today as it was in 1692. People today are more open to their thinking about witches and witchcraft. What caused the girls to convulse‚ have visions‚ fall into a trance or babble uncontrollably? Was it something they ate? Was it smallpox? Was it a voodoo curse placed on the girl’s by a Barbados slave? The Puritan Religion beliefs might have led to the witch hysteria in 1692 Salem. The witch hunt
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The Salem Witch Trials are known as a series of people being accused and prosecuted of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts beginning in February 1692 until May 1693. The trials began after a group of girls claimed that they were possessed by the devil. Several local women were accused of witchcraft and this began the wave of hysteria that would forever haunt Salem and leave a painful legacy for a long time to come. Nearly every major school of historians has attempted to explain the answer to the
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The Salem Witch Trials brought a lot of bad consequences when they misjudge a lot of people in Salem‚ Massachusetts when they were all in fear of something they didn’t know what it was . Even though the lesson from the Salem Witch Trials about the mass hysteria it’s still repeated in modern times . People let their fear or panic take over their decision in life . When people are scared they don’t tend to stop and think about their decisions and just go with what they think is right ‚even when they
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The McCarthy Witch Hunts When most people come across the term‚ witch hunts‚ they have the common propensity to imagine Satanism‚ witches brewing magical potions‚ and the Salem Witch Trials. The McCarthy Witch Hunts usually aren’t the first thing to pop up in their heads. During the late 1950’s and early 1960’s while the United States of America was fighting in the Cold War against the Soviet Union with hopes of protecting its sovereignties and freedoms‚ the growing fear of Communism and rising
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