Salem Witch Trials

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According to Blumberg, the Salem of witch trials it was a really bad part of the United State. There were people who didn’t understanding why they were getting accused. This happed during the 1692 and 1693 in Massachusetts this really happed during this time. The main parts that started atnd fueled the trials were politics, religion, family, feuds, economics, and the imaginations and fears of people (Sutter). The seeds of the hysteria are afflicted Salem village, Massachusetts was sown on January 1692 when groups of young lady’s began to display wild behavior. The physicians called to examine the girls could find no cause of the disturbing behavior. If the source of the affliction wasn’t attributable of a physical malady, the community …show more content…
Stress people believed that witches had the power to harm others. In 1689 the English rulers were William and Mary, who started a was with France in the American colonies, the war was william’s to the colonists. January of 1692 Parris daught Elizabeth, and the niece Abigail Williams they were having the episodes like being putham. Tituba truthfully said “ she had an image of some black dogs, red cats yellow birds as a black man who felt like she should sign his book (Blumberg). Some Hutchins ' and scientists have disagreed with girls continuing with their accusations because of them suffering from hysteria is without causes a strange physical symptions in a person who is healthy it didn’t matter if it was fear of Gods with the accusations did not relent (Sutter). Hysteria happen, it influenced children’s suggestion peer pressure to make them believe in things that are not true. “ trials should be fair evidence introduced should he reliable witnesses should be subject to cross- wxamination, defendants should have legal assistance and be allowed to testify on their own hehavlf, and judges should be unbiased (Lesson of the Salem witch trials). The Possible Causes no one knows what caused this tragedy. But it has been suggested that people in Salem were unsure which was a factor to the hysteria. In the winter of 1692-93 was a harsh time and it also added to people the anxiety. It may be made, people more aware with the outbreak of hysteria than usual. To add there were conflicts cetween the wealthy families in Salem village (Lambert). Something strange happened when two girls were having strange fits. A doctor named William Griggs claimed that they were bewitched later on several other girls started having fits. Then were a few cases of girls having fits and then accused the people of witchcraft. People in these days believed that if you suspected a person was bewitched, you could make witch crake and feed it to a dog. If the dog stated

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