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The Salem Witch trials in Massachusetts, 1692 have intrigued many. One wonder is what even made the witch trials commence at all? I can draw from the evidence provided to me, that several factors and considerations contributed to the trials. They include the blame that was passed from woman to woman, why the blame was passed on, rather than “confess” or proclaim innocence, and the social and economic differences between the east and west of the Salem village. The spread of blame is what seemed…

According to Theory number 1, Ergot fungus contaminated the crops harvested by the people of Salem, Massachusetts which developed the hallucinations of the citizens and started the Salem Witch Trials. In 1692, they harvested a great deal of wheat, rye and cereal grasses. Ergot, or ergot poisoning, is a fungus that attacks the central nervous system and causes muscle contractions, confusion, impaired speech, crawling sensations on the skin and hallucinations. The girls in Salem had feelings of…

accusers of witchcraft, the most common offenders were teenage girls (“Salem Witch Trials”). The Witch trials are believed to have happened for three possible different reasons: the effects of ergot poisoning, a boring puritan lifestyle, and to gain land or economic prosperity. Although many theories exist, the Salem Witch Trials most likely occurred due to a boring and strict Puritan life (Shah). The Salem Witch trials were a series of court cases based upon accusations of witchcraft.…

My judgement of the ministers and magistrates in charge of the Salem Witch Trials changes in attempt to accommodate for the differences in beliefs when looking at the circumstances in the perspective of modern standards with the advanced scientific information available, in comparison to the perspectives of the scientific and theological standards of the time at the particular point in history. In modern standards, the idea of witchcraft seems ludicrous and unimaginable to be legitimate because…

Written Critique Salem Witch Trials. The event known as the Salem witch trials took place in the year 1692 on New England Massachusetts Bay Colony. It all started in a puritan town called Salem, the puritans were very religious people who lived their lives according to the bible and took their religion as a very important part of their life. There was no separation between law and religion. It all started when the daughter and niece of the minister of the town began to suffer distempers and…

Causes of the Salem Witch Trials The Salem witch trial of 1692 was an important event that took place at the Salem Village, situated in the Massachusetts Bay colony, in the 17th century. Several young girls began to depict hysterical behaviors and began suffering for fits. Upon being examined by the local physicians the girls were found to have been afflicted. The girls were pressurized on declaring names of the one bewitching them and the whole event started with the accusation of three girls…

The Salem Witch Trials were hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft between the dates of February 1692 and 1693. However, the trials were sexist, in that being that women were the main targets of witchcraft. The woman were treated in an barbaric, callous manner. These fiendish acts were of cruelty and savagery. The judges accused the women of being witches by using insufficient evidence from only one source; the sayings of the slave Tituba. Such evidence is…

When you look at the twenty-first century studies on the Salem Witch Trials, some other psychological and gender issues appear. Mary Beth Norton, an American historian, looks at these issues as a cause of the fits that the girls had. The girls may have had fits as a guilty response towards the participation in fortune telling. Norton also attributes the cause to the post-traumatic experiences that the Indian War caused on the population. Norton is unclear of the roots cause of the Salem Witch…

The Salem witch trials, one of the most infamous outbreaks of witchcraft accusations in popular culture, started with accusations of possession brought about by two girls in the household of Samuel Parris, a Puritan minister. They blamed the fits they experienced on supposed witches in their community. Eventually, there would be one hundred and sixty four women and men in and around Salem that were accused of witchcraft, thirty of which would end up being convicted, and nineteen executed. While…

the persecution of innocent men and women, impacting American society’s morals and views. Religious beliefs and the Church played huge roles in the Salem Witch Trials. Puritan laws were strict, and…