Whether it had been the work of the Devil or the symptoms of ergot, the Witch Trials of Salem could be categorized as one of the darkest moments in American history. Beginning in spring of 1692 and ending the following year of 1693, the trial took the lives of 19 Puritans. In addition, the trial accused more than 150 men, women and children over the several months of its occurrence. The Witch Hunt was a time of fear and speculation, it was a time of chaos and bitterness, and those emotions were what ruled the trials and the events after.
The two articles⸻ “A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials” and “Salem Witch Trials”⸻ I have read state the same thing over this event. To begin to understand why this trial was such a grave issue, you must first understand what type of stress …show more content…
They could see a candle blow out and state that something bad was going to happen to them soon. Today, the witch trials, shows us how much fear people had, especially when it came to a new world, wars, and illness. To them, when something could not be understood or explained, they would find a way to find a reason for what was happening, and that would usually relate back to religion. Now I may not be the most religious person, but I do believe there to be an explanation for everything, lest it be religion or science. And the trials bring many of those explanations together, such as like I already stated, religion and science. Religion claims the illness of the young girls to have been the work of the Devil’s witches, while science claims it to have been the work of ergot which can be found in rye bread, a staple in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. All in all, trials as the ones that occurred in Salem, bring out the debate of it having it been the work of the Devil or of chemicals caused by what they were eating in that time
The two articles⸻ “A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials” and “Salem Witch Trials”⸻ I have read state the same thing over this event. To begin to understand why this trial was such a grave issue, you must first understand what type of stress …show more content…
They could see a candle blow out and state that something bad was going to happen to them soon. Today, the witch trials, shows us how much fear people had, especially when it came to a new world, wars, and illness. To them, when something could not be understood or explained, they would find a way to find a reason for what was happening, and that would usually relate back to religion. Now I may not be the most religious person, but I do believe there to be an explanation for everything, lest it be religion or science. And the trials bring many of those explanations together, such as like I already stated, religion and science. Religion claims the illness of the young girls to have been the work of the Devil’s witches, while science claims it to have been the work of ergot which can be found in rye bread, a staple in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. All in all, trials as the ones that occurred in Salem, bring out the debate of it having it been the work of the Devil or of chemicals caused by what they were eating in that time