live in Salem, Massachusetts, especially if you were a teenager. The town of Salem was out for justice for the strange behavior of teens. The Salem Witch Trials began at this time. In the Salem Witch Trials, men and women were falsely accused of witchcraft, tried and convicted for things they didn’t do, and executed as a result. Over 200 men and women were falsely accused of witchcraft. The accusations started in Salem Village and then spread to the surrounding areas. One example of how false accusations
In Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 there was a group of colonists that were from England that were called the Puritans; they were a very religious group that did everything that the bible told them to do and they stuck to it. They came from England where they were outcasts and wanted to get away from the religion there. Due to their religion, where they heard rumors of witches, they took it very seriously and put people to death: If there were rumors of odd things happening or they were acting strange
The Salem Witch Trials Would you like to know why, how, when, and who was involved in the Salem Witch trials? Well, there had been regular stresses of the 17th-century in Massachusetts Bay colony. People had a very strong belief in the devil; there had also been a rivalry with the nearby Salem town. Turned out, there were prisons filled with more than 150 men and women from towns surrounding Salem. In June, 1692 the court of Oyer and Terminer were in Salem to listen to the cases of witchcraft.
An infamous episode in American History, the Salem witch trials of 1692 resulted in the execution by hanging of fourteen women and five men accused of being witches. The trouble in Salem began when two young girls, Betty Parris, age nine, and her 11-year-old cousin Abigail Williams, asked a West Indian slave woman named Tituba to help them know their fortunes and over the next few months the girls began to show strange behavior. Throughout the spring, the number of accusers grew, and the jails continued
Tolerance: The Causes of the Salem Witch Trials On March 24, 1692, Rebecca Nurse, an elderly woman and respected member of Salem Village, was arrested on suspicion of witchcraft (Rosenthal Document 23). She was accused based solely on the testimony of four young girls who claimed that the apparition of Rebecca Nurse had severely harmed them. Many witnesses testified in favor of her, but ultimately the "afflicted girls" prevailed. Nurse was executed on July 19, 1692 (Godbeer 185). She was one of
an official guide on how to slay witches, called the “Malleus Maleficarum was published. After the Malleus Maleficarum was published, between the period of 1500-1560, which hunting and witch trials were starting to become extremely popular. For example, in 1542, an English law was passed that made it so witchcraft was officially against the law. After that point until the Salem witch trials in 1692, witchcraft trials were spreading and occurring like mad. Witchcraft trials were popular in Germany
In 1692 colonial Salem, Massachusetts, 20 people were accused of witchcraft and later were executed. It all started in January of 1692; the daughter of Reverend Samuel Parris fell ill. When they noticed that she wouldn’t improve, Dr. William Griggs was called in and what he diagnosed was bewitchment. After the diagnosis, witch hunting started, and therefore, 19 men and women of a young age were found and set to be trialed. Years after the execution, after the case had been meticulously investigated
the irony rests in the fact that no matter how many of these sick peoples lives I have saved, they will always consider me their enemy. My name is Tituba, and I was born in an Arawak Village in South America, where I was apprehended and taken to Barbados as a slave. Samuel Parris later bought me in Barbados when I was a teenager and brought me to Boston in 1680. After he was decreed the new minister, we moved in November of 1689 to Salem Village. But Salem Village later faced a hysteria, and I was
In 1692, witchcraft was happening in Salem, Massachusetts. Women were being executed because others believed that it was young women that were promoting witchcraft. Dogs, cats, birds, oxen, and pigs were called possessed and were being hunted down by the townsmen of Salem. Innocent animals were being eliminated because of witchcraft. Animals didn’t deserve to be treated like that, innocent pets were being killed because of the belief that was spreading through the town of Salem. Therefore, the people
In 1692, a high Puritan society thrived in colonial America. The people of Salem lived their lives through the Bible and trusted the word of God. Specifically in the Bible: Hebrew (KJ) Exodus 22:18 “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” Suspicion began to rise as the rumors of witchcraft ran throughout the city. Citizens began to worry whether or not their neighbors were truly a part of witchcraft. The City of Salem took every accusation to trial where they would hang 19 “witches” and have the