A Defense of the Salem Witch Trials Should witches be able to torment and anathematize English colonists without being punished? A Defense of the Salem Witch Trials provides reasons why eliminating witches out of the English colonists’ land was not only acceptable but also required to rid the area of the devil. On the other hand‚ An Attack on the Salem Witch Trials discussed the terrors in ridding the land of devilish spirits. The author of A Defense of the Salem Witch Trials‚ Cotton Mather‚ was
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US History October 3 2013 The Salem Witch Trials In January 1692‚ A hysteria developed in a Salem Village located in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The beginning of the Salem Witch Trials started when two girls‚ Betty Parris‚ 9 years old and Abigail Williams‚ 11 years old began acting strangely. They began by having “fits” that could not be explained by the local doctor. The doctor who had no explanation for the fits or convulsion like symptoms deemed it witchcraft. This was the beginning
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A time of death‚ fear‚ witches‚ scapegoating‚ and bizarre miscommunications between a community all in one area Salem‚ Massachusetts. Accusations broke out between the populace and people in 1692. The Salem Witch Hysteria (meaning a chaotic level of fear) of 1692 began with two girls‚ Betty Parris‚ daughter of Samuel Parris‚ and Abigail Williams. The young cousins first accused Tituba‚ a West Indian brought to assist them in their fortunes. Not too long afterwards‚ the young girls began acting strange
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leave 200 accused witches and 20 dead. The trials were based on religious beliefs and would separate all the “unholy” citizens from the community. The trials separated the community based on fear and individuals singling out others based on class. The witch-hunts have affected modern society by deeming women as weak and inferior to men and as easily controlled. The whole thing could have even simply started as a group of young girls who just wanted to gain attention and then taken over by corrupt leaders
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This case is considered a Witch Hunt because ‚ the aqcusation that Trump was helped to win the election by Russian hackers with no evidence backing. This is a prime example of a modern day witch hunt. They claimed he “obstructed justice” which “A person obstructs justice when they have a specific intent to obstruct or interfere with a judicial proceeding.” This was such a big deal in politics because it was more or less the democrats pouting about election loss and from that point on people tried
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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 to obey
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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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nalized what happen during the Salem witch trials in Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. In the play The Crucible ‚ by Arthur Miller‚ the town of Salem is involved in what some might say the “witch trials.” These trials negatively affected the community‚ the authority‚ the church‚ and the individuals. Many people in the town were being tested for their faith and their lives. The community of Salem was negatively affected by the witch trials. For instance‚ at the beginning of the play Miller informs the reader
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superstition got the best of them. Eventually these superstitions claimed twenty-five lives‚ shattered the community‚ and forever shaped the American social conscience. The combination of fear and superstition in Salem in 1692 caused a devastating witch-hunt‚ leading us to cry out for some old-fashioned justice. There
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violent fits. It was cause by fungus which invades developing kernels if rye grains. What really happen was that many people from Salem believe that ergot poisoning was the caused of Salem Witch Trials by eating poisoned food leads to a number of problem by those characterized of the victims of witches in the Salem witch trials. This led to happen because ergot lives better in warm damp‚ rainy springs and summers the exacts conditions that were presented during 1691-1692 which explain the end of people
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