Sarah Osborne

The Salem Witch Trials began in 1692 and became one of the most infamous witchcraft episodes in United States history. It all started in the small Puritan village of Salem when little Betty Parris and Abigail Williams became ill and did not show any signs of improvement. This is when Reverend Parris, Betty’s father, called in the village doctor William Griggs. His diagnosis of bewitchment had the village overtaken with mass hysteria that would continue to plague them long after the May 1693…

Causes of the Salem Witch Hunt The Salem Witch Hunt is an event in history that caused many of good innocent people to be hanged. During this hunt, twenty innocent men and women were accused of crimes in which they did not commit. These crimes included performing witchcraft on other civilians and practicing witchcraft on their own. All of these accused were sentenced to be hanged except for one man. Instead of being hanged, he was stoned to death for his unwillingness to admit that he practiced…

America’s Encounter with the Salem Witch Trials: Outburst of Hysteria and the Effect on Social Structure, Government, and Religion in the 1690s and the World Today The infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts forever marked the history of the United States. Much more than pointing fingers at so-called witches, these trials were the result of underlying tensions in the Salem community as well as a product of fear and anxiety produced by the Puritan religion. The trials did not…

In the first seen case of witchcraft the three women accused were all in some sort of poverty: Tituba a slave to a well known well to do family; Sarah Good a beggar; and Sarah Osborne an elderly woman who had little or no money to her name. The heads of the Puritan society believed that these women were so poverty stricken that they begrudged all the well to do families in Salem over jealousy for the “good life”…

Before the Salem Witch Trials occurred, the people of Salem had already been experiencing high stress levels due many different kinds of factors. They were undergoing threats of Indian Attacks, a Small Pox epidemic, new anti-religion charters made by the King and Queen of England, and their community was becoming more and more divided. Salem consisted primarily of wealthy merchants and middle class farmers. The community was torn in trying to decide whether or not they should separate Salem into…

by the devil and accused mostly older women of practicing witchcraft. The first women to be accused of witchcraft in Salem were seen as different and as social outcasts. The girls identified Tituba, an Indian slave, and two other women, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne, as their tormentors (Tindall et al.…

The Witch Trials of 1692 The year of 1692 was a trying time for the young Salem town. At the time, Massachusetts was awaiting their new governor William Phips arrival, the colony lacked a charter, and the towns of New England were being attacked by French men and Indians. Of the many hardships taken place in that year the most infamous event was — the Salem Witch Trials. This was not the first witch trial to take place in the colonies, in fact, 45 years earlier, or 1647 the first witch…

girls accused Tituba, Reverend Parris’ slave; Sarah Good, a homeless woman; and Sarah Osborne, an old woman, of influencing their strange condition. In March, the three women were interrogated for their supposed wrongdoings. Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne claimed that they were innocent. Tituba admitted to making a deal with the devil, saying that a “black man” came to her and demanded that she sign his book. Despite the fact that Sarah Osborne and Sarah Good proclaimed innocence, they were both…

Small town mystery During the year 1692, a major historical event took place in the town known as Salem, Massachusetts. In this period of time, many men and women were convicted of practicing witchcraft and using there given powers to cause distress and fear amongst the Puritan village. Witchcraft is the Belief in the supernatural–and specifically in the devil’s practice of giving certain humans (witches) the power to harm others in return for their loyalty (Douglas). The hysteria began to…

the suspicion of witchcraft. Arrests expanded from the socially marginalized to upstanding members of the community. Investigations allowed the admission of “spectral evidence”: that victims could see the spirit of an attacking witch." Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne both denied any work with the devil and witch craft, but Tituba didn’t. She ended up confessing to witch craft and she also told that there were other witches in the colony; This caused an uproar. Colonists started trying to find…