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of the trials, Parris’ niece and daughter were acting very strange. They then blamed two women for acting strange. Then Parris’ slave, Tituba, was forced to confess and she told Parris about nine other witches. Soon after, many people were on the hunt for witches and more people started to accuse random people of acting strange. Then Putnam revises records of the accused and made it seem like they’re guilty. The accused were then found guilty and hung. The death of the accused was not the…

The Salem Witch Trials began during the late winter and spring of 1692 when a group of young girls began to display strange behavior. They claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused many local women of witchcraft. The first convicted witch was Bridget Bishop and she was hanged. In January 1692, 9-year-old Elizabeth Parris and 11-year-old Abigail Williams began having fits, including violent deformity and uncontrollable outbursts of screaming. After a local doctor, William Griggs, diagnosed…

Salem Witch Trials Witches The word witch comes from the Celtic word 'wicca' meaning 'wise one' or 'magician'. Witchcraft was made a capital offence in Britain in the year 1563. Witchcraft is still illegal in various areas such as South America and India. Most of witchcraft today is practiced in the United States, Back in the times of Salem, witches were people who had seen the devil. During the trials themselves, they were able to identify witches by the witches' mark. The witches' or devils'…

The Witch's Hammer A book written witch-hunt manual in 1486 written by Heinrich Kramer. Jacob Sprenger is also often attributed as an author basically saying that witchcraft did exist. The Malleus was used as a judicial case-book for the detection and persecution of witches By the 15th century witchcraft had resurfaced and had its penlites. It served as a guidebook and was designed to aid them in the identification,persecution,and the deaths of witches. It's a way to tell the marks of…

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…

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 considered to be model citizens in a puritan society. This witch hunt started when a group of young girls appeared exhibit odd and inexplicable symptoms. Historians have stated that these symptoms may have been from a multitude of diseases, but during this…

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…

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…

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…

Over the centuries, people around the world have had various ideas about witchcraft. Europeans that witches were mainly women. People thought witches made deals with God’s evil enemy, known as “the Devil” or “Satan”. The devil supposedly gave witches 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…