Salem Witch Trials Essay

The Salem Witch Trial and its Religious Background Witches involved during the Salem Witch Trail are woman that practice in witchcraft and tend to have evil magic powers. These witches use their powers to cast spells on others or things coming their way. These witches have an interest in witchcraft and also have a religious background in them represented by many stories and documentaries. Witches have many different representations toward them, these are the main two things that describe…

prosperity and opportunity but it was also full of darkness. In New England, during the late 1600s, witch trials occurred. Many people were killed in towns all across New England for a crime which today is thought of as absurd. All across the area, people were tried and hanged for committing the crime of witchcraft. The most famous of these trials are those of Salem, Massachusetts. The Salem Witch Trials claimed the lives of over 20 people before they finally ended. One of the two factions…

the Salem Witch trials was the accusations towards the merchant colonists by the religious colonists of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 because of the religious views of the time and the economical changes brought by the merchants, and no other underlying cause was as influential as this one. The Puritans of Salem believed in witches that followed Satan and carried out his work. The merchants that caused the economic prosperity of Salem threatened the people’s Puritan values. The witch trials…

and not having a say in the matter. However in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, there were more than two-hundred accused and twenty that were executed because of this same reason. Also, in 1933 to 1945, during the holocaust, there were over sixty million accused, thrown into concentration camps to rot away, and were not able to have a say in anything that happened, or even try to justify their case. The Holocaust is similar to the Salem Witch Trials because in both events people were accused of…

HISTORY OF THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS The Salem Witch Trials started in the spring of 1692 after a group of girls claimed to be possessed by the Devil. While claiming this, the girls accused several other citizens of Witchcraft. This caused a sudden huge amount of hysteria to spread quickly throughout the colonies. As the mass hysteria spread, a special court was proposed for the Witches’ trials. The first victim that was accused of Witchcraft was a woman who goes by the name Bridget Bishop. In…

The Salem Witch Trials took place in Salem, Massachusetts from 1692 until 1693. This event would cause the small puritan community to be on edges. The cause for this madness were wild accusations of a witch being in the midst of the community. The reason for this belief of witches was sparked when these two young girls related to the priest Samuel Parris, started to act bizarre in 1692. It was said that the Doctor believed the cause of the little girls behaviors were from something supernatural.…

century in England. The time leading up to the Salem witch trials was full of tension and stress for everyone. Between the after effects of the British war with France, recent smallpox epidemic, and fear of attack from near by Native American tribes. Due to these tensions and just the human impulse to keep oneself safe, the witch trials were ultimately fueled with suspicion of one another, resentment, and just fear of the unknown. The Salem witch trials began in the spring of 1692. A group…

any of those accused innocent and dismissed any evidence to prove innocence of those accused. The court treated those accused aggrievedly because they felt that they had to uphold the honor of the court to hide their own guilt. During the Salem Witch Trials innocent people had to lie and say they were guilty in order to escape death. If one was to plead innocent then they were the court thought they were lying, therefore they were executed. This meant that people were lying so the court…

The Salem Witch trials represented an episode of strife, hysteria, and community paranoia; the likes of which the world has never encountered, albeit witchcraft was condemned in other regions of the colonies as well as Europe. Salem was a devoutly religious society and whenever supernatural events that couldn’t be explained logically or reasonably, witchcraft was the scapegoat that explained everything. The Salem Witch trials were a direct result of misogynous qualities that men harbored, which…

the time of the cruelty of the Salem Witch Trails had begun. At this time, people began to have hallucinations, delusions, they begun vomit, and have muscle spasms which was all caused by the fungus ergot. According to Blumberg, the fungus was found in rye, wheat and in other cereal. The people were not aware of the fungus ergot. They believed that the illness was all caused by witchcraft. This only lead to false accusations, of those who were believed to be a witch. These types of accusations…