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    According to Blumberg, the Salem of witch trials it was a really bad part of the United State. There were people who didn’t understanding why they were getting accused. This happed during the 1692 and 1693 in Massachusetts this really happed during this time. The main parts that started atnd fueled the trials were politics, religion, family, feuds, economics, and the imaginations and fears of people (Sutter). The seeds of the hysteria are afflicted Salem village, Massachusetts was sown on…

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    what caused the Salem Witch Trials that started in the 1690s and how it impacted the lives of the people living in Salem, Oregon. It also includes the perspectives of those accused, in addition to reasons why the accusers thought a specific person or group was guilty of practicing witchcraft. It’s an excellent source for gathering background information about the play The Crucible, as it mentions all of the characters in the play and how they impacted the Salem Witch Trials. Intended for history…

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    dancing in the forest, but some had claimed they were performing rituals to summon the devil himself. The word spread and anything someone thought was off about another person, or if they did not have a close bond was their way to accuse them of being a witch and getting rid of them forever. All of these reasons had been false and not what they were said to be, and people also were able to use this against people, neighbors, or outsiders…

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    The Salem Witch Trials In 1692 in Salem Village, Massachusetts, many of the young girls and women were complaining of being possessed by the devil due to witchcraft. However, none of the villagers were certain of who was doing the witchcraft. The girls accused many other women and some men in the village out of revenge or pure hatred. “Thousands of suspected witches were hanged or burned in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and belief in witches was common in the American…

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    The Salem Witch Trials During the seventeenth-century, an outbreak of witchcraft struck Salem Village, Massachusetts. Was it really witchcraft or was it just petty children? Either way, this took a toll on the New England colony and influenced history greatly. There are many documents and cases that reveal how the hysteria began, how it continued, and abruptly ended. The “afflicted girls”, Sarah and Dorcas Good, were not apart of Salem Village, but accused Tituba, the slave of Samuel Parris,…

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    Nineteen men and women were all hanged after being accused of using witchcraft in 1692. In Massachusetts Salem Trials first began in January of 1692 when a group of young girls, who later came to known as the “afflicted girls” felt sick after playing a fortune-telling game and began behaving strangely(Brooks). More than 200 people were accused of using witch craft. Like many other people the write, found this information interesting that she chose to learn more about it. Doing so she used the…

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    small farming towns, such as the infamous Salem, Massachusetts, this had gained Salem a dark reputation. The practice of witch trials had been going on for 300 years. During of which both the town and village of Salem had begun practising. In the fear of townsmen being and practising witchcraft, when suspicions were at there highest in 1692. When they perfrormed hundreds of trials to find guilty of which found, they most effective way of ridding of witches…

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    be hanged. Martha was not the first to be hanged though. After two little girls accused Bridget Bishop of being a witch. Paranoia swept throughout the small village, Salem. There had already been a trial the month before. Why were groups of people hanged for witchcraft in Salem in 1962. There were some poor teenage girls drunk with power and they started the Salem witch trials. The teenage girls accused older women of witchcraft, some little girls were drunk with power, and the poor…

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    Salem Witch Trials commenced and progressed between 1692 and 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts. Throughout this time period, many people denounced and tried a multitude of people, ranging from wealthy churchgoers to beggarly civilians living on the edge of poverty, for supposedly unnatural occurrences. However, the implications and intentions leading up to these controversial accusations remain a topic of debate among historians and researchers. One can attribute the rapid advancement of the Witch…

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    The salem witch trials were a very intense time for america. This paper talks about what they were, why they happened, the reason the stopped, the witches of today, and a story of a witch named Lady Alice Kyteler. The Salem Witch Trials started from fear but stopped because people realised that they were killing innocent women. The Salem Witch Trials were court hearings for people who were thought to be witches. Twenty or more people were either hanged or burned. A year or two later the madness…

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