All crazy stories we hear about the Salem Witch Trials today all started on January 1692. This tragic and strange time, although only lasting around a year, this event was a cause of twenty known executions. This was a dark time where the accused would turn on friends and the trials would cause people to give in as declare guilty, just to stop the torturing. Of the twenty known kills from the Salem Witch Trials, almost all were women or young girls. Of the few men that were killed, most were just defending their wives who had been accused of being witches. In 1692, it did not take much to accuse someone of a witch. Most of the trials just consisted of someone saying that they saw the accused of doing something supernatural, and there was little
