What do we know about Salem? Salem is a coastal town in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. Salem is a New England bedrock of history and is considered one of the most significant seaports in Puritan American history. Salem was founded in 1629 by the Puritans. Puritans, the people who did not recognize the authority of the official church and followers of Calvinism in England in the XVI-XVII centuries. The increase in the refugee population in Salem, led to a shortage of arable land and it has led to numerous disputes over land rights and inheritance. In January 1692 the nearby town of York was attacked by Indians, as a result, many of its residents died or were captured. “Only an unfortunate combination of an ongoing frontier
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She rushed contorted in pain, and complained of fever. The reason of her symptoms can be some combination of stress, asthma, child abuse, epilepsy, and delusional psychosis. “The symptoms also could have been caused, as Linda Caporael argued in a 1976 article in Science magazine, by a disease called "convulsive ergotism" brought on by ingesting rye--eaten as a cereal and as a common ingredient of bread--infected with ergot.” (The Witchcraft Trials in Salem). Cotton Mather published one book, "Memorable Providences," which describe the suspected witchcraft of an Irish washerwoman in Boston. The Betty's behavior in some ways reflect that of the suffering person described in Mather's widely read and discussed book. It was obvious that in 1692 in Salem, with an Indian war raging that the devil was close at hand and sudden and violent death occupied minds. About witchcraft people began to talk more when a 11-year-old Anne Putman, 17-year-old Mercy Lewis, and Mary Walcott began to show such unusual behavior. When the doctor, William Griggs failed Implemented treatment, he suggested that issues such as girls can like a supernatural origin. The widespread belief that witches targeted children diagnosed by a doctor, it seems more
She rushed contorted in pain, and complained of fever. The reason of her symptoms can be some combination of stress, asthma, child abuse, epilepsy, and delusional psychosis. “The symptoms also could have been caused, as Linda Caporael argued in a 1976 article in Science magazine, by a disease called "convulsive ergotism" brought on by ingesting rye--eaten as a cereal and as a common ingredient of bread--infected with ergot.” (The Witchcraft Trials in Salem). Cotton Mather published one book, "Memorable Providences," which describe the suspected witchcraft of an Irish washerwoman in Boston. The Betty's behavior in some ways reflect that of the suffering person described in Mather's widely read and discussed book. It was obvious that in 1692 in Salem, with an Indian war raging that the devil was close at hand and sudden and violent death occupied minds. About witchcraft people began to talk more when a 11-year-old Anne Putman, 17-year-old Mercy Lewis, and Mary Walcott began to show such unusual behavior. When the doctor, William Griggs failed Implemented treatment, he suggested that issues such as girls can like a supernatural origin. The widespread belief that witches targeted children diagnosed by a doctor, it seems more