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    haven’t done. During certain situations and times‚ people were used as escape goats. The people accused‚ usually ended up with the “bad end of the stick”. The Salem Witch Trials‚ The Red Scare‚ and Pearl Harbor are all events in history when people were profiled and treated unfairly‚ and we can learn from these events. During the Salem Witch Trials‚ many people were profiled and treated and unfairly. In the town of Salem‚ the Reverend was Samuel Parris. His niece Abigail daughter Betty were having behavior

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    supernatural means. In 1486‚ Sprenger and Kraemer published the first and most significant book on the concept of witchcraft which was titled Malleus Maleficarum. The book made a huge impact to the widespread witch hunt. Most people accused of witchcraft were rural‚ poor‚ and single women. I do believe the hunts were seen as a massive effort to keep women in their place. Women were seen as evil and unclean people whose weakness could summon the devil

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    The Salem Witch Trials was one of America’s greatest tragedies‚ and the McCarthy Trials can be considered a repetition of this historical event. The Salem Witch Trials and the McCarthy Trials share similar characteristics‚ which is exemplified through fear of speaking out‚ the types of people who were accused‚ and the mass hysteria that spurred both movements on. The first connection between these two events is probably the most obvious‚ that being a common fear of speaking out against the movement

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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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    Who are the key people involved in the “the other witch hunt?” what roles do each play in the incident? Specific examples/evidence from book the whole 1) Katherine Branch a) Servant of Daniel and Abigail Wescot b) Has fits may or may not be real c) accuses Disborough and Clawson i) claims Disborough was her guide to compo there and back ii) accused Clawson of pinching her and later red spots appeared on Kate which later turned into black and blue bruises d) begins trial and other colonist’s confession

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    interesting glimpse into the late 1600s court system and witch hysteria. In ways‚ it reminds me of the Red Scare of the 1950s. Although many of the early settlers to the New World were attempting to escape religious persecution in Europe‚ they still brought some of the same thoughts with them. Among those beliefs were the ideas of witchcraft and using its powers to “get even” with those who crossed them. Those ideas culminated in the witch hunts and trials in Salem‚ Massachusetts. Yet‚ that wasn’t

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    Compare/Contrast Essay 11-15-13 Salem witch trials v McCarthyism The Salem witch trials and the era known as McCarthyism have many similarities as well as differences‚ both reveal times in history when the people weren’t united as one. These two events are hundreds of years apart but reflect so much similarity. Both very tragic but these type of things have to happen so we can learn from them and try not to repeat them in the future. The Salem witch trials occurred in the late 1600’s‚ it all

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    There was once a small town called Salem‚ it had been home to many witches‚ warlocks‚ supernatural ghosts and creatures that you would hear in many horror stories until one day all of them had been slaughtered and burnt down by the travellers who call themselves humans and settled down in this town of Salem and called it ‘Shadow valley’ which was situated in north Carolina. Centuries later‚ Shadow valley was like any normal town and its past histories of witches‚ ghosts‚ warlocks and so on‚ were

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    Malleus Maleficarum Latin for “The Hammer of Witches” – Hexenhammer in German. A witch-hunt manual in 1486 was written by Heinrich Kramer. He was one of the (inquisitor of the Catholic Church) along with Jacob Sprenger. Sprenger is also often attributed as an author basically saying that witchcraft did exist. It was submitted to the University on May 9‚ 1487 for endorsement. In 1490 this book was banned by Pope Paul IV. By the 15th century witchcraft had resurfaced and had its penalties‚ the Malleus

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    The Crucible- Comprehension Study Questions 1. There are many factors that contribute to the initiation and the escalation of the witch hunts in Salem. Partisans truly believed in the existence of witches‚ as it was recognize as a sin against God in the bible. This caused their society to accredit any unnatural happenings to the Devil. When Ruth and Betty cannot wake‚ Ann Putnam blames her daughters unconscious state and the deaths of her unbaptized babies on witchery. Witchcraft in Salem is

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