The Witch

TIMELINE. Of the Salem Witch Trials From 1623 -1692 1623-24— The Fishing settlement was established. 1692— The Daughter and the Niece of reverend Samuel Parris become ill. ~~ William Griggs (Doctor) thought the illness was witchcraft. Which led to the hanging of nineteen men and women accused of witchcraft. ~~ People in Salem had a strong thought that the devil often possessed them. ~~ They filled prison full of people (about 150 people) Who were also, accused of witchcraft. June 1692 – meeting…

The notorious Salem Witch Trials began in 1692, in Salem Village, Massachusetts. Salem was founded in the winter of 1623, by a fishing settlement that was located on Cape Anne by England’s Dorchester Company. After several year of harsh weather, a group lead by Roger Conant, started to search for a more permanent settlement location. Roger Conant was born in East Budleigh, Devon, England in 1592. Conant sailed from the Plymouth colony from London in 1623 on a ship named “Anne”. Before Conant…

The Salem witch trials established a way to persecute empowered women as well as other outsiders in Puritan society by creating a toxic mindset in which both all people in the town were pitted against each other. However, this mindset grew from the root of all of Salem’s fears and anxieties which not only helped perpetuate the mindset, but also became the ‘justified’ reasons to condemn innocents for being witches. Women like Bridget Bishop and Sarah Good were persecuted not by concrete evidence,…

is scared for their lives and the innocent lie to keep themselves safe. During the times of the Red Scare and the Salem witch trials, this was common everyday life. The Salem witch trials consisted of events which accused the innocent of being witches. Similarly, throughout the McCarthyism era, innocent people were accused of being communists with no solid proof. The Salem witch trials initiated in the spring of 1692, “after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be…

The Deadly Blame Game Salem Massachusetts during the Witch Trials was not a place anyone would want to live. New witchcraft accusations came in everyday, with little to no evidence. Hangings and vicious back stabbing plagued the village. Throughout history we have seen time and time again how nasty humans can become when their life hangs in the balance. Scapegoating, mob mentality and quickly coming to conclusions “The Examination of Sarah Good’ demonstrates how quick…

appropriately named: The Salem Witch Trials. The Salem Witch Trials were a unique part of American history, that brought fear, dishonesty, and death over a small, religion-based community for over a year. When examined deeply, several instances of underlying conflict reveal the reasons for why such an event happened. The end result of these trials took the lives of over twenty, and over one hundred and fifty victims were accused (Latner 138). Nevertheless, The Salem Witch Trials continue to…

Salem Witch Trials- Real Vs. Truth The Salem witch trials were trials against friends and family for the only reason of fear, mischief and misconception. In the years 1692 and 1693, there were many court dates and accusations of men and women who were “seen” with the devil, which caused many executions out of fear. The event brought on stories such as the well-known play The Crucible by Arthur Miller and novels such as Susannah Morrow by Megan Chance. However, despite the use of real people,…

was named the “Salem Witch Trials.” Innocent people were being hung because of these girls that pointed their fingers at someone they felt like accusing. The witch hunts that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts back in 1692 were not the only witch hunts that plagued the history of the United States. Joseph McCarthy, a Senator from Wisconsin, led a group that intensely investigated and punished anyone being suspected of being communist or anyone that was for the…

“The Salem Witch Trials began in 1692” (Nick T. 1). In my opinion, it is ironic that the accusations were started by three young girls. Why anyone would take accusations of this sort seriously is incomprehensible. However, these girls, “screamed, threw things, uttered peculiar sounds and contorted themselves into strange positions” (Nick T. 2). Of course, it did not help matters when, “the local doctor blamed the supernatural and proclaimed that the community had a witch in its midst” (Nick…

The Salem Witch Trials and the McCarthy era are two horrific periods in time. The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of practicing witchcraft taking place in colonial Massachusetts in the 1690’s. The McCarthy Era, also known as McCarthyism, was a campaign against alleged communist in the United States government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950’s. Both events were fueled by fear and both ruined countless…