Witch-hunt

into a male dominated society, women were more often under attack for being a witch than men. Within Puritan culture there was a hierarchical system. This system gave all authority to men, a man was over his wife, children, and servants. Compared to men women were expected to be quiet, submissive, and under a male head of the household; women had particular roles to upkeep in Puritan culture. In his book The Salem Witch Hunt A Brief History with Documents, Richard Godbeer presents a description…

aside tangled rushes, and reeds, using a flashlight as a guide to wade through the shallow marsh. It did not help that the pouring rain flooded the sedges, they stepped over as lightning streaked across the sky. The light landed on a crocodile on the hunt. A hiss broke from the reptile’s snout that opened, exposing its conical teeth. Reeda squealed and rushed away. “Help me!” A voice shouted. Logan spun around just in time to see Reeda as she sunk deeper into the earth submerged in quicksand.…

“Modern-day Witch Hunts: Broadly targeting the Muslim Community is antithetical to America’s founding ideas” The general argument made by Jamie Dailey in “Modern-day Witch Hunts: Broadly targeting the Muslim Community is antithetical to America’s founding ideas” is that all Muslims are being besieged after the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001. More specifically, Dailey reasons that the fears that Americans hold are irrational in that they cause a light to be shown on the…

Witch Hunts and Hysteria In the past and present no one has been safe from the Salem witch trials because people accuse and prosecute through fear and without proof. In the past the Puritans would accuse one another of Witchcraft and the only way to save themselves was by confessing to having practiced witchcraft and naming other witches; this really meant to accuse innocent people to save yourself. McCarthyism in the 1950’s was not really any different from the Salem witch trials, people were…

records within Hungary and Essex show that the gender of a witch was traditionally a female as 91%-92% of women were convicted of being witches. Other larger countries such as France and Germany were thought to have 80% of female witches , whilst the Holy Roman Empire consisted of 82% . Such statistics support the view that witches were more commonly identified as women over men. This is supported by Callow who goes on to state that a witch I “generally expected to be women” as some areas saw…

The Salem Witch Trials can simply be described as the following: a dark period in history where unwarranted persecution and ignorance ran amuck in human society. This phrase summarizes the gist of many historical opinions generated by this horrific event. However, this phrase implies that witch hunts abruptly stopped after this dramatic and sickening period in history, unfortunately this assumption is false. The witch trials of Salem involved the execution of twenty residents, and the…

largest witch hunt in recorded history: the Great Witch Craze. Women especially were accused for a myriad of illogical reasons: being angry with a neighbor whose livestock fell ill or speaking out against the actions of the Church. Many scholars such as Nachman Ben-Yehuda believe that the European Craze was worst in France and Germany, though American scholars often claim the infamous Salem trials were the worst. The Salem Witch Trials are perhaps the most well…

You may find that the Salem witch hunt indirectly compares with the witch hunt of today, the Me Too movement. The one thing the two parallels share almost interchangeably is the act of accusing others without proper evidence against them. With that said, the witch hunt of 1692 took place in a small town called Salem. It all started when a group of girls who were caught dancing naked in the woods by Reverend Parris. This kind of dancing is frowned upon by the church because it is viewed as a…

you. Well that's what happened in the Salem Witch Trials. There was also an era where people in America would get there lives ruined and there jobs taken away because of accusations. This was called the McCarthy Era. There were a few similarities and differences in the McCartthy Era and the Salem Witch trials. Here they are. There are very similar details from these times in America. During the Salem Witch Trials people were accused of being a witch or someone who performs witchcraft. If you…

Witch trials were quite the frenzy about 350 years ago. From Europe to the New England Colonies, witch trials are a big part of history. About 30 years before the Salem Witch Trials, there were trials over in Connecticut. Eleven people were hanged and 46 prosecutions took place. Connecticut was the first of the American Colonies to have gone through the witch hunt frenzy. Hartford, Connecticut was the first New England town in America to have a witch hunt and trials. A young 8-year-old girl had…