Histeria In Salem Essay

The author of The absolutely true tale of disaster in salem is Rosalyn Schanzer, the salem witch trials there was a large case of hysteria. This happened because the puritans had a contradiction against the bible they believed in the bible like it was life or death. “Be thankful for your trials. If your are being tested, you are being predicted. Which means you have a divine purpose”(“trials quotes”). The puritans wanted to make a heaven on earth and they did not believe this quote because they fell into mass hysteria. They did think they have to kill all of the witches but they are not supposed to kill people. This lead to mass hysteria. They all had hysteria because they don't want to get accused themselves, so they decided to accuse for …show more content…
There are terrestres and very crazy people but histeria did help make our court system. As stated on page 106 in the absolutely true tale of the disaster in the salam “It can not be imagined that in a place of so much knowledge, so many in small compass of land should abominably leap into the divals lat at once” (Shanzer)this shows that no matter how smart or how the peopel are prespectiped to be they still can fall and fail.. It also says on page 131 of the absolutely true tale of the disaster in salem”But never again will we allow witchcraft, the devil, and the lure of superstition to rule the day in america” (Shanzer)this helps to know that innocent people will not be killed because of overly dramatic kids under mass hysteria. Most people felt a sense of embittered ness, once people getting hanged and they felt like they horrified and stunned. In this book on page 91 it states that people plead for innicons and gave their testimony to God, “As they rode up to gallows hill, each of them prayed forgive that God would prove their innocence” (Shanzer)this impacted today's trials and they would not come up with things on the spot. People do refer to recant and past events very fervent because of their impact on