Witch Trials Ignorance

The Salem Witch Trials are known for the execution of twenty innocent victims. The civilians of Salem also accused two hundred innocent people of performing some type of witchcraft supposedly. “Eighteen others followed Bishop to Salem’s Gallow Hill, while some one hundred fifty more men, women and children were accused over the next several months” (Bodian). A witch is a person that practices witchcraft, which is also known as the Devil's magic. The government of Salem said that they could tell if a person was a witch by weighing them to a stack of bibles and if the person, being accused of being a witch, was heavier or lighter, that person was a witch. The Salem Witch Trials are an example of ignorance in a community; during the trials, …show more content…
They showed this by not wanting people to be different and wanting everyone to be the same. " The superstitious, ignorant, ritualistic religious Puritans caused the hanging and imprisonment of innocent people, just because these people did not fit into their social and religious agendas" (Thomas). This shows that the Puritans did not want something different in their society. All they wanted was everything to be perfect according to their social and religious agenda. One question that should be asked is why are people judging us for what we believe in, practice religiously, and wanting everyone to be the same. If everyone were to be the same that would leave us to a colorless world without any creativity or different personalities. The Puritans have caused nineteen more lives just for being ignorant, superstitious, and having a ritualistic …show more content…
This is an interesting topic to ponder about because it was our country that this happened in and that is what we all have learned about. "There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them" (C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters). This shows that our nation fell for believing in the devil and it is saying it was a bad habit that this city started. The devil does exist and the way that the people in Salem treated him was like he was a friend. This became a bad habit or an excessive amount of lies the people told and God sent this down to the people to teach the people of Salem a lesson. The lesson learned here was it is not okay for people to follow and learn the devils'