The cause of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 began when three girls named Samuel Parris, Betty Parris, and Abigail Williams became strangely ill. When meeting with doctors, several of them suspected that witchcraft was the cause of their illness. The girls accused three women as the origin of their symptoms. When the “witches” were put on trial, the judge held them accountable for torturing the girls even though he could not see what the “witches” had done to the girls. The “witches” were proven to be responsible for what occured between the three girls based on the speech by Cotten Mather, the testimony of Abigail Hobbs, the chart of the sizes of family farms in Salem Village throughout the years, and finally the map of Salem Village and Salem
