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The Salem Witch Trials are a sequence of incidents in Massachusetts.These trails were about if people got turned into a witch and causing trouble, and if they were, they would die.According to the background essay, the bible thought the devil was the witch.When the devil went into another person they would cause a ruckus.But that may have been a myth and however, many people don’t know what caused it. According to the bible, the devil still could be a possible answer to the cause of the…

The Salem Witch Trials began in 1692 and consisted of prosecutions of women and some men who were thought to have been practicing witchcraft. These women were taken to trial, and if they were convicted of practicing witchcraft, they were violently put to death. With the rising tensions in the colony, The Salem Witch trials of 1692 were caused by curiosity in religious beliefs, young women claiming they were possessed by the devil, and troubles arising among the community. By this point the…

Imagine if you were accused of doing or being apart of something that would give people reason to legally kill you. Well that's what happened in the Salem Witch Trials. There was also an era where people in America would get there lives ruined and there jobs taken away because of accusations. This was called the McCarthy Era. There were a few similarities and differences in the McCartthy Era and the Salem Witch trials. Here they are. There are very similar details from these times in America.…

detail in these later reviewed art pieces is graphic sexual practices that further strengthen the link between witches and sexual depravity. All of the reviewed works included the mirror as an essential component of a witch’s arsenal, all of them being depicted as concave-shaped mirrors. The shape of mirror significant as convex-shaped mirrors are associated with rituals that summon and entrap demons (Zika, 2013, p. 16). These views are shared in other studies such as those conducted by Barr…

Pentacle: (4)For years, the media, pop culture, portrayed the pentacle as evil, like the pagan symbols were bad. Beginner Wiccans often have to "reprogram" their own way of thinking about the pentacle. (4) The pentacle was seen as both good or evil. Mostly in pagan terms, good. Now, I have no other knowledge as to where the word originated from and what all powers it contains, so doing a bit of research on my own I have come to find out some, what I like to call. Fun facts. The pentacle…

The salem witch trials began when some little girls had extreme sicknesses. Nobody knew what the cause of the illness was. Then the little girls started accusing random women of witchcraft. Eventually, people started accusing each other of witchcraft. But what exactly caused the salem witch trials? Based on information and readings, I believe that the real reason behind the salem witch trials was revenge and economics. Let's go back to the years 1640-1700. During those years, there were two…

Nina Wise Professor Bruce Franklin HIST2013 14 September 2016 Salem Witch Trials In order to understand the Salem Witch Trials, you must first understand the Puritan belief in the supernatural. The Puritans believed that witches allied themselves with the devil to carry out evil deeds and anything bad that happened in the colonies such as death or illnesses were more times than not blamed on the work of witches (Boundless). They also believed in the wrath of God and they took any measure…

The role of women as healers during the middle ages has received some attention from medical historians but remains little known or appreciated. In the 3 centuries preceding the Renaissance this role was heightened by 2 roughly related developments. The first was the evolution of European universities and their professional schools that for the most part systematically excluded women as students thereby creating a legal male monopoly of the practice of medicine. Ineligible as healers women waged…

An infamous episode in American history, the Salem witch trials of 1692 resulted in the execution, by hanging, of nineteen villagers, fourteen women and five men, accused of witch craft. Additionally, one man, Giles Corey, was punished by peine et fort, death by pressing (Linder, paragraph 22). These antics could have been the cause of teenage boredom, congregational strife, personal jealousies, and fears of the citizens. The main question is why did this travesty happen in Salem? In 1689,…

WITCHCRAFT AND GENDER IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE Introduction The historical statistics during the Early Modern Europe have proven the existence of gender marginality that occurred during the persecution of witchcraft trials. Between the fifteenth and eighteenth century, eighty to ninety percent of the individuals convicted of witchcraft were female. Historians have presented theories to unfold the phenomena of the gender marginality across different parts of Europe by examining the trials records…