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of early evidence presented in court, with an emphasis on the Salem Witch Trials. Secondary Sources Latner, Richard B. "The Long and Short of Salem Witchcraft: Chronology and Collective Violence in 1692." Journal of Social History 42, no. 1 (2008): 137-156. http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=0&sid=2d94ea2f-15f0-49db-98c8-085aaafbe5e8%40sessionmgr4007. Latner provides a general overview of the Salem Witch Trials. The author touches on specific incidents and provides…

through the air were considered fantasies. On the other hand, witchcraft was define differently in various places and was treated differently by the religious elite and how this influences the practice of female power. Instead, in northern Europe a witch was consider as an old ugly and poor women while women involved in witchcraft in Castile were usually young unmarried women living in casual unions with men; they were also servants, maids and sometimes prostitutes .In southern Spain were the…

The Salem Witch Trials In the 14th century, a witch superstition broke out in Europe. When Europeans found the colonies, this belief carried over to their new lands. Many of the settlers, as the colonies gained age, still were very suspicious about the existence of witches. So, when a smallpox epidemic broke out in the mid 17th century, people once again became fearful of witches. The Salem Witch trials are a series of trials that began due to the fear that had erupted and taken place in the…

Lewis, Mackenzie. Book Review of A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials. By Frances Hill. New York: Doubleday, 1995. The Salem Witch Trials are well known across the United States. Images of women screaming at the stake while being burned, religious leaders yelling about damnation and hellfire, and young girls going into convulsive fits fill the minds of many Americans. Frances Hill takes on the daunting task of sorting through the various information and creating a…

for the decision upon this word. It may have related to the time of the Salem Witch Trials and what Arthur Miller had written because these trials were challenging for the ones that had to make decisions on who to kill, etc. Additionally, it may have been related to the fact that witches uses pots of that kind for their witchcraft related things. The author may have titled his play “crucible” it connects with the witch trials, and it may also connect with the difficult decisions that had to be…

the common term used to describe a situation in which various people all suffer from similar hysterical symptoms – either from a phantom illness or an inexplicable event. The Salem Witch Trials and The Holocaust are both similar because they both are mass hysterias that have killed many innocent people. The Salem Witch Trials occurred in the 1600’s, more than two hundred people were accused of practicing witchcraft and dealing with the devil (The Crucible). This all started because many…

According to Theory number 1, Ergot fungus contaminated the crops harvested by the people of Salem, Massachusetts which developed the hallucinations of the citizens and started the Salem Witch Trials. In 1692, they harvested a great deal of wheat, rye and cereal grasses. Ergot, or ergot poisoning, is a fungus that attacks the central nervous system and causes muscle contractions, confusion, impaired speech, crawling sensations on the skin and hallucinations. The girls in Salem had feelings of…

Over the years many even senteries vampires have taken all kinds of different faces . they have changed from the terrifying examples of dracula or nosferatu. The have gone from bad to good or from bad to worse . but mostly bad to good . there are many examples of vampires throughout history. And a large part of our fears come from them. I will start by describing the early vampires. Back in the day they were terrifying and they were meant to be away from normal humans. They would terrorize…

What I found to be particularly interesting in the chapter They Hang Horses, Don’t They? was that animals were persecuted in a court of law. That animals were given the same sentences for committing murder as human beings, which was death if they were found to be guilty. In addition, animals received some of the same rights as their human counterparts as they were provided with defense attorneys during their trial. One of the arguments that lawyers presented in court was Genesis 9:7 a verse…

thought to inhabit the person, and cause them to behave awkwardly. Furthermore, this model refers to the high superstition of people for hundreds of years in the western culture. An example of how superstitious people were is found in a book called “The Witch Hammer”, which instructs how to punish witches. Some consequences of these beliefs were the killings of the women believed to be witches. For instances every time there was a person with an abnormal behavior, the person was in risk of…