It all started in the harvest season of 1692, when the village of Salem’s minister noticed that his nine year old daughter and his niece started to obtain strange symptoms. The little girls started to blame people of being witches and that they were the ones who caused them to be sick. But were the people who were blamed actually guilty?
The village of Salem mostly grew rye, which is a type of oat. During the time of these witch accusations was when the rye would grow the most. Rye can get a disease called ergot. Ergot is caused by the overwintering stage of rye. One theory states that the girls could have ate infected rye and got ergot poisoning. Ergotism causes a nervous dysfunction in the body, which would cause trembling and shaking, twisting and contorting their body in pain, muscle spasms, confusions, and delusions on hallucinations. Most of these symptoms are the symptoms that the people who said the witches caused these strange illnesses were having. In the makeup of it, doesn’t “make it”Also ergot makes up the illegal drug LSD. This drug causes the same symptoms that the people were having. One reason why this could not be the reason is …show more content…
It would probably get pretty boring doing mostly the same thing everyday. These girls could have been bored and just made up stories about witches hurting and poisoning them. They could have just wanted a sense of entertainment. They would probably find the people they hate then tell the minister, who was one of the girl’s dad. Or they could have found someone who would look differently, like one of the girls slave, who was a native american, and blame it on them. This makes sense because when little kids get bored they tend to lie and do things they're not supposed to. Also they probably wanted attention because their dad or uncle was the minister so he was getting all the attention and they probably felt neglected because of
The village of Salem mostly grew rye, which is a type of oat. During the time of these witch accusations was when the rye would grow the most. Rye can get a disease called ergot. Ergot is caused by the overwintering stage of rye. One theory states that the girls could have ate infected rye and got ergot poisoning. Ergotism causes a nervous dysfunction in the body, which would cause trembling and shaking, twisting and contorting their body in pain, muscle spasms, confusions, and delusions on hallucinations. Most of these symptoms are the symptoms that the people who said the witches caused these strange illnesses were having. In the makeup of it, doesn’t “make it”Also ergot makes up the illegal drug LSD. This drug causes the same symptoms that the people were having. One reason why this could not be the reason is …show more content…
It would probably get pretty boring doing mostly the same thing everyday. These girls could have been bored and just made up stories about witches hurting and poisoning them. They could have just wanted a sense of entertainment. They would probably find the people they hate then tell the minister, who was one of the girl’s dad. Or they could have found someone who would look differently, like one of the girls slave, who was a native american, and blame it on them. This makes sense because when little kids get bored they tend to lie and do things they're not supposed to. Also they probably wanted attention because their dad or uncle was the minister so he was getting all the attention and they probably felt neglected because of