The Big Salem Lie
The mystery of a small town in Salem has been discovered to be a lie.
Events that lead to these trials where the group of girls manifesting their visions of the people being with the devil. Many witches have been found in Salem all which are small girls. “As hysteria spread through the community and beyond into the rest of Massachusetts, several others were accused, including Martha Corey and Rebecca Nurse–both regarded as upstanding members of church and community–and the four-year-old daughter of Sarah Good.” The case came to the attention of the town when multiple people were being killed at once from one day to another. Then the witches where accused against the ministry. “The three accused witches were brought before the magistrates Jonathan Corwin and John Hathorne and questioned, even as their accusers appeared in the …show more content…
Historian decided to make a play about for how fascinated they were and one of a big part of the play was a plant that made people feel sick and then people thought they were working for the devil. They researched down into weird occurrences. “In the 20th century, artists and scientists alike continued to be fascinated by the Salem witch trials. Playwright Arthur Miller resurrected the tale with his 1953 play The Crucible, using the trials as an allegory for the McCarthyism paranoia in the 1950s.” “Additionally, numerous hypotheses have been devised to explain the strange behavior that occurred in Salem in 1692. One of the most concrete studies, published in Science in 1976 by psychologist Linda Caporal, blamed the abnormal habits of the accused on the fungus ergot, which can be found in rye, wheat and other cereal grasses.” Finally these strange occurrences where found and done with researchers still today look back to the Salem witch trials and high school students learn about the
The mystery of a small town in Salem has been discovered to be a lie.
Events that lead to these trials where the group of girls manifesting their visions of the people being with the devil. Many witches have been found in Salem all which are small girls. “As hysteria spread through the community and beyond into the rest of Massachusetts, several others were accused, including Martha Corey and Rebecca Nurse–both regarded as upstanding members of church and community–and the four-year-old daughter of Sarah Good.” The case came to the attention of the town when multiple people were being killed at once from one day to another. Then the witches where accused against the ministry. “The three accused witches were brought before the magistrates Jonathan Corwin and John Hathorne and questioned, even as their accusers appeared in the …show more content…
Historian decided to make a play about for how fascinated they were and one of a big part of the play was a plant that made people feel sick and then people thought they were working for the devil. They researched down into weird occurrences. “In the 20th century, artists and scientists alike continued to be fascinated by the Salem witch trials. Playwright Arthur Miller resurrected the tale with his 1953 play The Crucible, using the trials as an allegory for the McCarthyism paranoia in the 1950s.” “Additionally, numerous hypotheses have been devised to explain the strange behavior that occurred in Salem in 1692. One of the most concrete studies, published in Science in 1976 by psychologist Linda Caporal, blamed the abnormal habits of the accused on the fungus ergot, which can be found in rye, wheat and other cereal grasses.” Finally these strange occurrences where found and done with researchers still today look back to the Salem witch trials and high school students learn about the