The Crucible, a film based on the Salem Witch Trials, began in 1692, in a Salem Village located in Massachusetts. Elizabeth Parris, the nine-year-old daughter of minister Samuel Parris, developed a pain of sickness in which no doctor could find a cure. Slave, Tituba, purchased by Samuel Parris was an Arawak Indian from Guyana. She was brought to New England to become a slave to the Parris family. Later on Tituba tried to end Bettys sickness by feeding a dog a baked cake in which contained Elizabeth’s urine. Among all of the women Tituba was the first one to be arrested. Investigators were then convinced that there were witches in Salem who worshiped Satan. However, more and more people started being accused of becoming witches by a group of
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Witchcraft spread throughout the world and eventually made its way to the New World. The study of witchcraft has been known for working with the devil. Anthropologists referred to witchcraft as witch finding movements. Witch crazes, witch-hunts, and witch panics has been referred as collecting objects in Europe and America by historians because of their pathological and irrational behavior. Anthropologists have also discovered meaningful patterns in witchcraft. These patterns are relationships between witchcraft accusations and structural conditions in which rise. In the Middle Ages, a new understanding of witchcraft was being circulated in Europe, and it established the meaning of “the phenomenon and the terms of its social regulation.” In result, the superior capabilities of the witch were used for good or evil employments in which was the cause of making a pact with the devil. The elements of witchcraft can be traced as far back as the sixth century after Christ. To demonstrate a cruel reality, the story Malleus was published, it was used for medieval scholasticism to teach traditional arguments.. There were three conditions of witchcraft to occur: the evil intentions of the witch, the Devils’ assistance, and the permission of God. Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Malleus was a powerful influence on the theory of witchcraft and the social policy of
Witchcraft spread throughout the world and eventually made its way to the New World. The study of witchcraft has been known for working with the devil. Anthropologists referred to witchcraft as witch finding movements. Witch crazes, witch-hunts, and witch panics has been referred as collecting objects in Europe and America by historians because of their pathological and irrational behavior. Anthropologists have also discovered meaningful patterns in witchcraft. These patterns are relationships between witchcraft accusations and structural conditions in which rise. In the Middle Ages, a new understanding of witchcraft was being circulated in Europe, and it established the meaning of “the phenomenon and the terms of its social regulation.” In result, the superior capabilities of the witch were used for good or evil employments in which was the cause of making a pact with the devil. The elements of witchcraft can be traced as far back as the sixth century after Christ. To demonstrate a cruel reality, the story Malleus was published, it was used for medieval scholasticism to teach traditional arguments.. There were three conditions of witchcraft to occur: the evil intentions of the witch, the Devils’ assistance, and the permission of God. Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Malleus was a powerful influence on the theory of witchcraft and the social policy of