Witch trials

The Salem witch trials were a series of trials that took place after what is known as a witch hunt took place in the city of Salem. Several people were persecuted and executed after being accused of witchcraft. People were not the only victims. Animals were also persecuted as witches. These accusations seem absurd and preposterous, but at the time ,witchcraft was a very dangerous thing to be accused of and many paid with their lives. The question is, what made these people go along with…

Why did the people catch on to the “witch” hysteria so quickly, and you also may be wondering who in their right mind would start all of this and why? So as said in the first few chapters of the book, “ Betty and Abigail began to twitch and choke and contort their bodies into strange abnormal shapes, crouch beneath the furniture, and speak in words that made no sense.” (Schanzer 19). Their symptoms only had grew worse as the days went by, forcing Reverend Parris (their father) to become…

this as the Salem Witch Trials, named after the Salem Massachusetts village. The Salem witch trials happened in 1692 after a group of three girls in the village were accused of having been possessed by an evil spirit that they believed was inflicted upon them by the women who practiced witchcraft in the village. As the rumors continued to spread across the colony, a special court was put in place with the aim of listening to the presented issue. Before getting to Salem witch trial hearing, it is…

Who is to blame for the witch trials in Salem? No one other than Abigail Williams of course. Abigail was just a normal girl who lived in Salem. She once went into the woods with a group of girls and from there everything changed. The girls one by one put different items in a cauldron and said the name of the person they adored. Abigail then got naked and started dancing with the group of girls and when they got caught she then later faked to be under a spell and panicked the whole town. Abigail…

Ten-year-old Betty Parris was the daughter of Reverend Parris, the minister of Salem Village. She is the first to become “afflicted” by witchcraft. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, based on the events of the Salem witch trials, seventeen-year-old Abigail has an affair with John Proctor, one of the town’s more prominent men. His lust for Abigail and her subsequent jealousy of his wife ultimately lead to the events of The Crucible. The Puritan society oppressed the girls…

Theories of The Salem Witch Trials Salem, Massachusetts, a town originally settled in the early seventeenth century, after King Charles II granted a charter, allowing the colonization and self rule over The Massachusetts Bay Colony. This charter was revoked then renewed before finding stable ground in 1691. Salem was run by a group of Puritans who left England due to religious oppression. The Puritans sought out a land where the Puritan Church could not only exist, but exist without interference…

What Caused The Salem Witch Trials There were three causes Conflict between young girls and older woman,lying teenagers,economic and political power divide between two sides of town.One possiable causecould be the conflict between young girls and older woman,witch involved age, gender, and maritual status. According to the accusers chart on document B there were twenty-nine out of thirty-four people were females twenty-three of twenty-nine were under twenty-one years old. Another possible…

Reasons for Salem Witch Trial Accusations The Salem witch trials will go down in history as one of the most intriguing, yet calamitous events in history. Taking the lives of twenty individuals, out of the more than two hundred that were accused in the town of Massachusetts. The trials caused chaos and panic amongst the people, and town. Everyone being scared of the accused, and whether or not you could do something just a little bit out of the ordinary to become an accused. This caused a lot of…

In the novel The Crucible by Arthur Miller, The Salem Witch Trials are incited with accusations against some of the known girls of Salem. Due to the greed and deep rooted vengeance that the people of Salem have for one another it turns into hysteria and pure injustice. The people of Salem saw the Witch Trials as a perfect way to get back at each other these "truth seeking” hearings were built entirely of falsehoods, most of which originates from the testimonies of Abigail Williams. Abigail's…

amounts of people tend to believe that the 1950 's McCarthy trial is a resemblance of the 1692-Salem Witch Trials, for the cases were rendered as false and filled with a lot of accusations and invalid truths to no-proof at all. Primarily the reason for theses cases,was to blame others for their own gain and respect. Both cases within the McCarthy and the girls in Salem, blamed others for their own personal gain, respect, and honor. Both trials were built off of covered up lies to gain attention…