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Norton presents a text where she offers a “new interpretation of the witchcraft crisis” of Salem, Massachusetts (101 of 8616). She argues that rather than solely analyzing Salem, scholars must analyze the whole of Essex County, Massachusetts (113,184). She also argues for the need for exploration of the history of the witchcraft crisis as a history of frontier warfare because of the military affairs such as King Williams’ War occurring simultaneously in New England as the rise of the witchcraft…

Anarely Gamino 3rd hour Mr. Winship Challenge social studies Thesis paper Have you ever watched a harry potter, or paranormal activity movie. Did you enjoy it or get scared. People throughout the ages have seen and respond to the supernatural differently. If you look throughout the years you will see 1890s classic monster movies, 1680 witch trails, and now. Well you will see a different respond to witches in the 1680s than someone today were accused of being a witch. The Salem Witch trials…

HST 3401 Primary Document Analysis Form Your name: Yevgeniya Erdyniyeva Class section: Mn-Wed 5 Date: 09/28/15 Document title: Two letter by Gov.Phips Date of document: February 21st 1692/93 Author(s): Governor William Phips 1.Two or three biographical sentences describing author(s): Governor William Phips of province Salem in early 17th century, who create the court of Oyer and Terminer for witchcraft trials.Due to the fact, that the court did not work legitimately, he suspended the…

The Salem Witch Trials are a sequence of incidents in Massachusetts.These trails were about if people got turned into a witch and causing trouble, and if they were, they would die.According to the background essay, the bible thought the devil was the witch.When the devil went into another person they would cause a ruckus.But that may have been a myth and however, many people don’t know what caused it. According to the bible, the devil still could be a possible answer to the cause of the…

The Salem Witch Trials began in 1692 and consisted of prosecutions of women and some men who were thought to have been practicing witchcraft. These women were taken to trial, and if they were convicted of practicing witchcraft, they were violently put to death. With the rising tensions in the colony, The Salem Witch trials of 1692 were caused by curiosity in religious beliefs, young women claiming they were possessed by the devil, and troubles arising among the community. By this point the…

Imagine if you were accused of doing or being apart of something that would give people reason to legally kill you. Well that's what happened in the Salem Witch Trials. There was also an era where people in America would get there lives ruined and there jobs taken away because of accusations. This was called the McCarthy Era. There were a few similarities and differences in the McCartthy Era and the Salem Witch trials. Here they are. There are very similar details from these times in America.…

He had two lessons planned in case one could not be completed. For instance he arranged both an indoor and an outdoor scavenger hunt because it was snowing, granted he allowed us to attempt the scavenger hunt in the snow. He was so passionate in everything that he did, that is why his students loved him. He could make anything turn into a catchy song to help us remember. What set Mr. Lilly over the edge of all other…

detail in these later reviewed art pieces is graphic sexual practices that further strengthen the link between witches and sexual depravity. All of the reviewed works included the mirror as an essential component of a witch’s arsenal, all of them being depicted as concave-shaped mirrors. The shape of mirror significant as convex-shaped mirrors are associated with rituals that summon and entrap demons (Zika, 2013, p. 16). These views are shared in other studies such as those conducted by Barr…

Pentacle: (4)For years, the media, pop culture, portrayed the pentacle as evil, like the pagan symbols were bad. Beginner Wiccans often have to "reprogram" their own way of thinking about the pentacle. (4) The pentacle was seen as both good or evil. Mostly in pagan terms, good. Now, I have no other knowledge as to where the word originated from and what all powers it contains, so doing a bit of research on my own I have come to find out some, what I like to call. Fun facts. The pentacle…

The salem witch trials began when some little girls had extreme sicknesses. Nobody knew what the cause of the illness was. Then the little girls started accusing random women of witchcraft. Eventually, people started accusing each other of witchcraft. But what exactly caused the salem witch trials? Based on information and readings, I believe that the real reason behind the salem witch trials was revenge and economics. Let's go back to the years 1640-1700. During those years, there were two…