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hen it came to sentencing the accused, there were only a few ways that they got punished. Most of the supposed witches died in jail, some were hung, but one member of the community was stoned to death. Giles Corey was an old man who farmed and was the husband of Martha Corey. One day, Martha was accused of witchcraft after she questioned about the lack of evidence behind the malice trials. After voicing this to the community, people then came forward and accused Martha of being a witch. She was…

during the seventeenth century, it brings back to the dark period full of social, political, and economical challenges and gender inequality in American history. Richard Godbeer’s book, Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692, discusses the events of the story of a witch hunt in Stamford, Connecticut. Furthermore, the book details how series of witchcraft cases brought before local adjudicators in a settlement called Salem, a part of the Massachusetts Bay colony, caused many innocent people…

Their religion is very strict, you come to church every sunday, don't work on the sabbath, and you believe the ministers word like it’s the words of god himself. Anything they have done to go against this would make them look like a witch if they was accused by people of the town. When accused most of them are asked to say the 10 commandments and if they can’t say them then they are said to be a witch. The punishment for witchery if you confesses is to be beat severely, and if you don’t…

The Salem Times Bringing you the most up to date information regarding the Salem Witch Trials $1.50 Tuesday, November, 7th 2017 Why 24 People Died of Jealousy We have been studying the salem witch trials in social studies and trying to figure out what caused them. After a lot of time studying, I have decided that jealousy is what caused the Salem Witch Trials. If you have never heard of them, the Salem Witch Trials, It was a big hysteria where people of Salem village accused other people…

The Salem Witch Trials started in February 1692, over 200 hundred people were accused of witchcraft. There are a lot of questions about what caused the acusion of witchcraft? Was it ergot poisoning? Were people actually signing a contract with the devil or, were they just crazy? The infamous witch trails started all because a group of young girls claimed to be possessed by the devil and started pointing fingers at several local women claiming them of witchcraft. Two young girls (Elizabeth…

“Look not like the inhabitants of the earth, and yet are on it” (Shakespeare 17). The ideology and belief of witches sprouted in the 1600’s when women would be accused of summoning evil spirits or harming human victims (Witches 167). King James, the king in 1609, was infatuated with witchcraft ever since he “became convinced that witches were secretly escorting his fleet, traveling in magical vessels made out of kitchen sieves” (Demons 191). Witchcraft was a feared yet popular topic in England…

Salem in the late 1600s was tortured by witch hunts, with neighbors turning on each other to save themselves from death. Ruled by a theocracy, the Salem community was thoroughly examined to see who was a witch, with reasons ranging from reading a book to murmuring under their breath to not attending church. Nobody was safe, and with everyone lying to protect themselves, the court took drastic measures and sentenced people to hang. John Proctor and Abigail Williams are most directly to blame for…

“It is better that ten suspected witches may escape than one innocent person get condemned-unknown” You might be wondering what this means or why it's even here. In Salem, Massachusetts 1600s there began the witch trials. In the play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller he explains what people were feeling and how they reacted including John Proctor. John Proctor was a farmer who everyone respected, he had a wife and three kids. Towards the end of the book he was asked to confess to witchery to…

During the 1600s witchcraft initiated its uprising in society installing fear and intimidation throughout. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, depicts a play based off The Salem Witch Trials, revealing characters’ true intentions and witchcraft. It was during this time where witches were being identified and societies main targets were women. Simultaneously, as vulnerable as they are, women were also subjects to cruelty and pain A witch referred to a person who has a connection with the Devil and…

Fear is like a disease. It works differently on every body it manifests, but generally, the outcome is similar. When the first hysterical cries of witchery were heard in 1692 Salem, the results were lethal. The whole catastrophe began with a lie. A lie to protect the only thing that mattered in puritan Salem, reputation. The puritan life that was based on the simplicity and austerity, demanded from you to be modest, proper, and traditional. If you even thought otherwise, that went against the…