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    When playing Witch Mafia on Friday, the objective of the game is to kill the Black Man, but instead we ended up killing nearly all of our townspeople. Like the Puritans, we came up with faulty and stretched reasons for why one of the townspeople was guilty, simply because we needed to kill someone, yet did not have any real evidence for doing so. Some of the people in the class did not feel one way or another about a person, and their votes were cast as swing votes. The swing votes were mostly…

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    The Salem witch trials of 1692 can be best described as one of the most infamous periods in American history. Over the span of one year it has been estimated that over 200 people were accused of witchcraft and about 20 individuals were executed. Although this episode appeared to be hysteria driven it was quite obvious that one group of people were more likely to be targeted and condemned. Those that were accused and found guilty there seemed all be members of the community who were not…

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    Barber-Surgeon I have always been intrigued with the study of medicine. I started school in 2014 with the goal to graduate with a BSN. At the beginning of the semester it was mentioned in class that people in the early 1200 to 1820 there was a Barber-Surgeon. A Barber-Surgeon is a barber that cuts hair, shaves people, pulls teeth, removes superficial tumours, stops haemorrhaging, drains pus filled sores, preforms enemas, used leeches to help with blood clotting, curetted fistulas, and sutured…

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    One of the examples lies in the roman history that in the time of ancient roman period such laws were made that empowered man as compared to women. This all was done by authorities of that time. It stated that male or man has right and power to punish, beat, and treat harshly women. Thus this was practice of usual women were ignored, overlooked and the decisions of their lives were made with high hand it caused the humiliation and violation of human rights. Women were burnt and killed bitterly…

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    Salem Witch Trials : Abigail Williams There were people getting hanged for witchcraft in the town of Salem. There has been over 20 people getting sentenced to death because of witchcraft. There is a group of girls pretending that they are bewitched and they are blaming people they do not like for witchcraft. They have been going through the whole town and picking out people they do not like and the people have no chance to survive unless they confess themselves to witchcraft. This all happened…

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    money, land, or other valuable gifts. In return, the witches had to help the devil with his evil work. This often meant harming people by supernatural means. People invented ways to tell if someone was a witch. Witches had odd birthmarks or moles called witch marks. Accusing people of being a witch was an easy way to attack your enemies. It was also a way to punish people who were seen as different. People often accused their neighbors if they did not attend church. As it always has been and…

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    The Salem Witch Trials began during the spring of 1962 after a group of young girls in Salem Village, MA, said they were being possessed by the devil and accused local women of witchcraft. With chaos running around the village, the special court began taking on cases. Bridget Bishop, the first convicted witch, was hanged in that June month. Belief that the devil could give certain humans, witches, power to harm others in return for their loyalty emerged throughout europe as early as the 14th…

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    very angry when bleg was accused of witch because her nephew nail himself, and got infected thought it was bleg who witch him. that does not make any sense because it was infected because he nail his hand and blame bleg for that. and another thing that make me feel angry was when they said they are going to throw the bird in the air and if it fall face down then she innocent and if it fall front ward they she's a witch and it fell front ward and accuse her of a witch and I disagree because it…

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    Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe, it is estimated that approximately 110,000 were accused of witch-craft, with some 60,000 “confessing” and being tortured or executed. Among the tens of thousands accused and/or executed, many were women who were often single, widowed, and of lower socioeconomic status. According to Sarah and Brady Hughes, “…centralized governments were willing to prosecute on sexual and religious matters fell heaviest on the lower class, those unable…

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    The cause of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 began when three girls named Samuel Parris, Betty Parris, and Abigail Williams became strangely ill. When meeting with doctors, several of them suspected that witchcraft was the cause of their illness. The girls accused three women as the origin of their symptoms. When the “witches” were put on trial, the judge held them accountable for torturing the girls even though he could not see what the “witches” had done to the girls. The “witches” were proven…

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