People of the Salem witch trials

At the tail end of the witch craze in Europe, comes the Salem Witch Trials. The European witch craze lasted from the fourteenth century to mid-seventeenth century. During this time period, between “200,000 and 500,000 witches” were executed most of these people were women . The vast majority of these trials took place in a sixty-year time period between 1570 and 1630. During this time period “four out of five victims were women”. Most of these women were homeless, widowed, never…

SALEM WITCH TRIALS Over three hundred years ago, the people in and around Salem, Massachusetts, took part in the most massive witch hunt in American history. The Salem Witch Trials were a terrible time for the little town of Salem. The Trials began in the Spring of 1692 when a group of girls claimed they were possessed by the devil. This sent panic all throughout the Village of Salem and led to more than two hundred local citizens being accused of witchcraft (Worthen 1 of 3). The Trials came…

The Salem witch trials were a series of bizarre accusations brought before the court of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The infamous Salem witch trials began after a group of young girls claimed to be possessed by the devil and the majority of people accused were women. Furthermore, the Salem witch trials resulted in mass hysteria. In the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller the trials started when Parris’s daughter felt ill which caused people to start rumors and theories that accused other people…

The salem witch trials were very chaotic in 1692. In the salem witchcraft hanging of 1692, there were twenty people killed, nineteen were hanged and one was pressed to death (Doc A). Giles Corey was pressed to death because he would not testify in the salem witchcraft trials. The causes of the salem witch trials of 1692 are jealousy, lying young girls, and town division. Jealousy played a big role in the salem witch trials. Younger females were jealous of older females, so they accused them of…

The Trials Encounter Politics The citizens of Salem were not exclusively affected by the witch trials— the authorities were shaken as well. At first, judges involved in the trials placed blame on “the trickery of Satan,” releasing themselves from any feelings of guilt. They eventually recognized their mistakes, and on January 14, 1697 proclaimed a Day of Fasting, where twelve jurors admitted they had condemned people without proper evidence. We do hereby signify to all in general (and to the…

The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 came out of the Puritan belief that “witchcraft” and the practice of it was evil. Many people, both men and women, were accused of witchcraft, tried in court, found guilty, and executed. Many innocent people in Salem, and in the country of America, were put to death from the idea that these people were evil creatures, sent to tempt the Americans and destroy them. Later on in history, there have been attempts to make up for the terrible events. And eventually the…

What Happened During the Salem Witch Trials? The Salem witch trials started during the spring of 1692, when a group of girls in Salem village Massachusetts, said they were possessed by the devil and accused many women who lived nearby of witch craft. One cold day in January in 1692, something happened in the Parris household. Betty Parris and her cousin Abigail began to twist their bodies into weird shapes and saying stuff they could not understand. Betty’s worried father called a doctor to…

corruption run rampant during one of America’s darkest periods. 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts was a time of fear, allegation, and distress. The town of Salem will forever be linked to the witch trials and the executions of innocent victims. One person tortured to death, five others die in prison, and nineteen men and women hanged (6). The atmosphere surrounding Salem was ripe for the occasion. Some of the predominant causes of the Trials were a combination of the strict Puritan codes which…

The Salem Witch Trials were “unfair” throughout countless eyes of villagers that lived in Salem village during this ghastly era. These trials were conducted on people that were either “seen” conducting strange activity or exhibiting strange behavior. The villagers called these people who were accused of showing abnormal behavior, witches. These witches are then brought to court and tried against the judges. The judges would then determine whether the witch would be announced innocent or would be…

The Salem Witch Trials are known for the execution of twenty innocent victims. The civilians of Salem also accused two hundred innocent people of performing some type of witchcraft supposedly. “Eighteen others followed Bishop to Salem’s Gallow Hill, while some one hundred fifty more men, women and children were accused over the next several months” (Bodian). A witch is a person that practices witchcraft, which is also known as the Devil's magic. The government of Salem said that they could tell…