The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 was a time of panic and bedlam. Men and women of all ages were being “inhabited by the Devil” in turn making them witches. During the 1600s‚ English immigrants arrived in New England‚ a number of them being Puritans. The Puritans were Protestant Christians who were unhappy with the way England practiced Christianity so they moved to New England for a fresh start. However‚ once it was the 17th century‚ witchcraft became more well known and people became more worried
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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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connection. In the articles "Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive." Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive. Web. 25 Apr. 2016. "Salem Witch Museum." Salem Witch Museum. Web. 25 Apr. 2016. "The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692." The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692. Web. 25 Apr. 2016. William Griggs‚ township physician‚ was summoned. He insinuated that the girls’ ailments might have a supernatural source. His analysis was that the girls were bewitched. The people of Salem had a strong faith in the devil
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Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism Throughout history‚ society as a whole has experienced many different tragedies. All around the world negative events have taken place that affect large groups of citizens. Mass hysteria is one of many examples. Mass hysteria can be defined as a large group of people whose behavior exhibits overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess (Merriam Webster 613). Mass hysteria caused and contributed to many life changing events‚ including the Salem Witch Trials
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How could two epidemics that happened hundreds of years apart be similar? The Salem Witch Trials and AIDS hysteria compares in many ways‚ especially fear. Both events were exaggerated to the extreme by everyone‚ started in a small group of minorities‚ and had severe consequences during the crisis. The Salem Witch Trials and AIDS hysteria was exaggerated by everyone that knew or was involved with the cases. One elementary school in New York found out one kid was diagnosed with AIDS so that fall
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The Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 to 1693 was composed of a series of hearings as well as prosecutions of people‚ mostly young women‚ who were said to exhibit unusual behavior in Salem‚ Massachusetts. This behavior was classified as “witchcraft” and those who practiced it were claimed to be possessed by the devil. The idea began when a number of young girls started to take part in fortune-telling games‚ but the Puritan society on Massachusetts saw these abnormal events to be a sin‚ and decided
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The Salem witch trials began when the 9-year-old daughter of reverend Samuel Parris and his niece were diagnosed as being under Satan’s influence. The Salem witch trials were an inhumane and unfair series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people‚ also four other accused and an infant child died in prison. People believed witches were associated with the
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Influence of Religion on the Salem Witch Trials It is easier to find the Devil in your neighbor than to admit to your own guilt. With the help of religious intensity it is easier to see them hanged as well. In 1692‚ in Salem‚ Massachusetts this religious intensity does just that. The Crucible‚ a play by Arthur Miller‚ portraits the grim events that are happening in this little town of Salem and demonstrates just how easily things can get out of hand. The people of Salem are Puritan‚ and their
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the Salem Witch Trials stemmed from sheer ignorance from the Puritan people. The first factor in the ignorance displayed by the people of Salem was a result of their religion. The Puritans held a firm belief in the Bible and had a strict interpretation of the meaning of what was in the Bible. So they took the Bible passage that reads‚ "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live‚" seriously. I think that this is the very root of the problem: ignorance as a result of religion. Had the people of Salem not
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socially‚ and religiously has a direct effect on the people historically involved. In The Salem Witch trials of 1692‚ a major factor of what happened was the way puritan society perceived themselves and others. Miller’s The Crucible‚ displays certain social conditions of the Puritan lifestyle‚ and how they affected the trials at large. To understand the full and complicated social aspects of Salem when the Witch Trials began‚ one must look at the moral code that puritans were expected
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