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his sermons. Tituba admitted to witchcraft crimes and blamed Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne of bewitching her. This spark ignited paranoia of witchcraft. According to Benjamin C. Ray P,” [the townspeople believed the witches] aim is to destroy the church in Salem village an later, all the churches in the Bay colony” (41). Almost instantaneously, the citizens of Salem began chanting false…

for the family of Rev. Parris, was accused of a witch because of her knowledge of foreign magic tricks and social status. She then falsely confesses to being a witch and confesses to knowing of other witches in the village, among them, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne. Overall, the main cause of the witch hysteria was the puritan lifestyle because, not only did the puritan lifestyle set very strict boundaries for its followers, but it set a mentality in them that brainwashed them from seeing the…

The girls began the practice of fortune telling, even though it was regarded as a demonic activity in the Puritan community. Other girls began listening to the stories as well, including; Elizabeth Booth, Sarah Churchill, Elizabeth Hubbard, Mercy Lewis, Ann Putnam, Jr. Susanna Sheldon, Mary Warren, and Mary Walcott. “Soon thereafter, [the girls] became strangely ill, having fits, spouting gibberish, and contorting their bodies into odd positions. The Reverend…

women accused were those with poor reputations to begin with. Sarah Good, Bridget Bishop and Sarah Osborne are three of those accused; a beggar, a harlot and a “hexer”, afflicting her victims with sickness. These women found their deaths in 1692, either by hanging or death in jail. Abigail Williams was the main perpetrator in all this, as when she was starting to be questioned, she planted all the blame on Tituba, who then turned it onto Sarah Good and so on and so forth, creating a cycle of…

Kayla Horton Mrs. Quinn American Literature Honors 7 March 2016 Witch Hysteria Comes To Salem Salem Village was a small area made up of farms and neighbored by thick forest. At the center of town stood the village church, which was attended by most all of the inhabitants every Sunday. Not attending church to practice another activity was viewed as sinful by Puritans. Villagers were mainly poor and endured hard lifestyles with “a constant fear of Indian attacks, severe illness, and even death”…

It´s 1692 in the town of Salem Massachusetts. Salem was a small town with not a big population. Except, Salem may have been small and not have been very populated but, this old, little and mysterious town was known for witchcraft (Rice 19). It had been a long time ago since the last witch was reported but, many unnatural things had been happening lately in the small town of Salem (Salem witch trials 6). Three curious young girls were experimenting in their basement (Rice 7). These girls…

History is a complicated subject. It has stories full of uplifting and courageous events: wars fought and won, inspiring people who helped to shape the world. Yet, as there are these righteous events, so must there be the dark, gruesome, and depressing stories. Every place has its dark moment; the time in its history that the people would rather the world simply forget about. In a little town in Massachusetts, the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were a perfect example of such a dark time. Filled…

How the Salem Witch Trials Went Down Arthur Miller was born in Harlem, New York in 1915, his father owned a coat manufacture company and his mother was an educator who read a lot of novels. As he grew up he almost lost everything because of the Wall Street Crash in 1929 which caused him to move from Manhattan to Flatbush, Brooklyn. After high school he had a couple of jobs before he was able to save up enough money to go to the University of Michigan. It was then he went on to be a well-known…

Whether it had been the work of the Devil or the symptoms of ergot, the Witch Trials of Salem could be categorized as one of the darkest moments in American history. Beginning in spring of 1692 and ending the following year of 1693, the trial took the lives of 19 Puritans. In addition, the trial accused more than 150 men, women and children over the several months of its occurrence. The Witch Hunt was a time of fear and speculation, it was a time of chaos and bitterness, and those emotions were…

Muslim American Witch Hunt Versus Salem Witch Hunt The Salem witch trials was only the start to “witch hunts” in the United States. Throughout history, there has been witch hunts for witches, communists, and one of the more recent, Muslim Americans. Ever since the terrorist attack on 9/11, there has been a stereotype that all Muslim Americans are terrorists or dangerous in some way. Hate crimes have only increased against them. The Salem witch hunt is all too familiar to the Muslim…