The Witch

A modern day dilemma that compares to the Salem Witch Trials is the Holocaust. Although the Holocaust happened roughly 250 years after the Salem Witch Trials, the events significantly resemble each other in a way of mass hysteria. Mass hysteria is also defined as an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized as a sudden outburst of laughing or crying. In the Holocaust and the Salem Witch Trials, the leaders were ridding people of the “inferior race”. Many people say that…

What do the Holocaust and the Salem Witch Trails have in common?.The Holocaust and the Salem Witch Trials have several things in common, even though the two took place in different time frames . In the Holocaust and Salem Witch Trials they both compared how the women and the Jews were pushed out of society, how they were seen in the community and the effect they both had on our world's history. The Witch Trials began in the spring of 1962 after a group of girls claimed to be processed by the…

experienced convulsive seizures, reverent screaming, and trance like states (“The Salem Witch Trials, 1692”). A week went by without an conclusion to what caused all this. The girl’s families and local minister came to conclusion that it was evil that had taken over the village. A woman by the name of Mary Sibley came out willingly to confess what she said was the truth. She confessed that the girls had been given a witch cake, which is what caused them to act like this. The cake was a rye meal…

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 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…

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 of being a witch. This happened in 1692. Why…

The Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692 was caused by many factors that were of issue at the time. These factors included fear, attention seeking, and extreme religious beliefs. One summer in Salem Village, 20 people were killed and more died in the witch trial due to the hysteria that surrounded the village. The first and most obvious cause for the hysteria was the extreme religious beliefs held by the Puritans. It is not unheard of for someone to have such extreme beliefs that they actually…

Salem Witch Trials.. most of the time when you hear those words you might just ignore the Salem and Trials and go straight to witches and think of the creepy ones that are on brooms that you hear stories about around halloween time or the ones in movies that want to eat children, Well these kind of Witches are different. The famous Salem Witch trials started in spring of 1692 when a group of young girls claimed that they were possessed by the devil and later accusing several women of…

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…

Why Salem was Different The Witch Trials of Salem in 1692 was a prime example of hysteria overtaking the community. Two dozen people were hanged due to the trials. Although there have been other cases in history that have had large amount of people being frantic, very few led to lives being lost, nor were as accepted in the community as in Salem. Due to certain aspects in the community and due to their beliefs, the frenzied cases of Salem were allowed to take place where the obscure…