The Magic Flute

Walking into the court on the first day of the witchcraft trails I felt quite a bit of remorse for those on trial. For it had been my fault, our fault. We accused the innocent of witchcraft, so we could get out of trouble, but did we actually save ourselves? So I now must to confess, I cannot keep in such a lie. We cheated the entire town of Salem. All of the girls and I weren’t forced to dance in the woods by Tituba’s spirit. We did it willingly, and for that matter quite often. When Reverend…

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…

Wicca is the second-fastest-growing religion in the United States with the first being Islam. When we here Wicca we usually think of straight up black magic but there is much more to Wicca then magic. Wicca means “wise ones” or “to bend or shape”. Wicca is a predominantly Western movement whose followers practice witchcraft and nature worship. The people involved in Wicca see themselves as a religion of pre-Christian traditions of Northern and Western Europe. The origins of the ancient Wicca…

Russian Witchcraft Witchcraft has a place in every culture in some way or another, however in Russia it is utilized in multiple ways. Witchcraft in Russia has been around for a long time and consists of spells, rituals, and witch trials. The belief of witchcraft has been around since the seventeenth century when there was a witch hysteria that was the start of the witch trials in Russia and the rest of Europe. Witchcraft is still around now with the use of everyday spells and the rituals such…

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…

Deflating at the lecture, the healer didn’t know what to say, “I…I'm…I'm sorry. I may have overstepped my bounds. It's just that…well, in 1917, a witch in my family suffered over a series of months before Mors Tactus est Scriptor Capturam was finally found to be the culprit. By the time it was figured, it was too late and she died less than a month later. My family has been told this story and is the reason so many of us have specialized in potions in the area of healing. We are told from a…

In the year 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts, nearly 200 people were put on trial for witchcraft and wizardry without any evidence at all. Of those, twenty were executed by barbaric methods including being crushed with stone, drowning, and being dropped from a ceiling until their shoulders were dislocated. The trials were fueled by the hysteria of witchcraft in the 17th century and made citizens oblivious to the fact of what could actually be going on with these people. Similarly, in Harper Lee’s…

is an ancient imagination that is in play in the minds of people who were raised and have lived through the indoctrination of non-existent magic into their heads, giving them the impression that things can be achieved through supernatural means. The Oxford South African Pocket Dictionary, 2006. 3rd edition, wrongly defines witchcraft as the practice of magic especially the use of spells and the calling up of evil spirits. I don’t understand why they present a fiction as a fact, because they…