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    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…

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    the Salem Witch trials was the accusations towards the merchant colonists by the religious colonists of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 because of the religious views of the time and the economical changes brought by the merchants, and no other underlying cause was as influential as this one. The Puritans of Salem believed in witches that followed Satan and carried out his work. The merchants that caused the economic prosperity of Salem threatened the people’s Puritan values. The witch trials…

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    Why Salem was Different The Witch Trials of Salem in 1692 was a prime example of hysteria overtaking the community. Two dozen people were hanged due to the trials. Although there have been other cases in history that have had large amount of people being frantic, very few led to lives being lost, nor were as accepted in the community as in Salem. Due to certain aspects in the community and due to their beliefs, the frenzied cases of Salem were allowed to take place where the obscure…

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    experienced convulsive seizures, reverent screaming, and trance like states (“The Salem Witch Trials, 1692”). A week went by without an conclusion to what caused all this. The girl’s families and local minister came to conclusion that it was evil that had taken over the village. A woman by the name of Mary Sibley came out willingly to confess what she said was the truth. She confessed that the girls had been given a witch cake, which is what caused them to act like this. The cake was a rye meal…

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    prosperity and opportunity but it was also full of darkness. In New England, during the late 1600s, witch trials occurred. Many people were killed in towns all across New England for a crime which today is thought of as absurd. All across the area, people were tried and hanged for committing the crime of witchcraft. The most famous of these trials are those of Salem, Massachusetts. The Salem Witch Trials claimed the lives of over 20 people before they finally ended. One of the two factions…

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    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…

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    not able to have a say in anything that happened, or even try to justify their case. The Holocaust is similar to the Salem Witch Trials because in both events people were accused of things due to fear and vengeance, all who were involved thought that what they were doing was the right thing, and both events…

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    Inside the house of Reverend Samuel Paris in 1692 started the very beginning of the Salem Witch Trials. A small group of young girls were having fun with their friends and performing “fortune-telling” and “little sorceries” practices. The actions of these girls were all in good fun until one day their games were presented to the general public in which everyone feared the worst. These rumors spread around the town frantically and little did the girls know they were in grave danger. This tale of…

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    of those accused innocent and dismissed any evidence to prove innocence of those accused. The court treated those accused aggrievedly because they felt that they had to uphold the honor of the court to hide their own guilt. During the Salem Witch Trials innocent people had to lie and say they were guilty in order to escape death. If one was to plead innocent then they were the court thought they were lying, therefore they were executed. This meant that people were lying so the court thought…

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    The Salem Witch trials represented an episode of strife, hysteria, and community paranoia; the likes of which the world has never encountered, albeit witchcraft was condemned in other regions of the colonies as well as Europe. Salem was a devoutly religious society and whenever supernatural events that couldn’t be explained logically or reasonably, witchcraft was the scapegoat that explained everything. The Salem Witch trials were a direct result of misogynous qualities that men harbored, which…

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