"Burn her! Hang her! Kill the witch!", the crowd yelled as young woman was being accused for witchcraft. She was caught in an alley performing strange rituals on a dog. In Massachusetts over twenty five thousand men, woman, and even children were accused of witchcraft. According to, Mitchoff, Kate Housten, author of, "Salem Witch Trials, the trials lasted from around 1600 to about 1700. Although not all guilty most were punished in inhuman ways. Because witchcraft wasn’t legal, anyone accused would
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allegations on how the Salem Witch Trials started. Of course, there will never be a definite answer, but there is a theory that is very convincing. Ergot poisoning. A fungus that infects rye has a byproduct called ergotamine, which is related to Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, or LSD. Linnda Caporael, a psychology major at U.C. Santa Barbara, was told to choose a subject for a paper in her American History class. Her just seeing a production of “The Crucible” she began to write about the witch-hunt. "As I started
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Three Sovereigns There was once a small city in Massachusetts called Salem. Taking place in the very late 1600s, cases of witchcraft took the city by storm known as the “Salem Witch Trials”. The trials resulted in the execution of 20 individuals and imprisoned hundreds more. Two of the women executed (Rebecca and Mary) were the sisters of a woman named Sarah Cloyce. They were hung during the Salem Witch Trials. Sarah herself was unlawfully arrested, but was fortunate enough to not be
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As the trials were starting to be resolved more political leaders started to step up and take responsibility for their part in the trials. Samuel Sewall walked into church and confessed to his sins and asked to take the blame for the Salem events and to be forgiven (Magoon 71). As more people started confessing their inaccuracy more and more people started to follow suit. Even public leaders started to apologize which risked their power. After Sewalls public apology 12 men who served as jurors made
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that there were more people involved in the bewitching of the girls. Martha Corey and Rebecca Nurse (both faithful to the church and the community) were questioned and named guilty. As more and more people confessed, more and more were named. The trials had very soon escalated to such a point that in April of 1692, Deputy Governor William Phipps decided to have the Special Court of Oyer hear the cases and the Terminer would decide for the cases for the Suffolk, Essex, and Middlesex counties. Johnathon
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placed on the tip of a nose, frazzled grey hair with resemblance to lace of a spiders web, and nails only the devil could love were characteristics once believed by Puritans had possessed over half of the population of women in Salem. An event known as The Salem Witch Trials was a historical incident that defined the way women were treated through later decades based on the views of the Puritan people. These Puritans were a protestant group that were strict upon freedom of women and believed religion
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The Salem Witch Trials was one of the most phenomenal events that had ever occur in history, that lead to which is now still a mystery on how it happened. During the 1600s, immigrants from England came over to a part of North America, which is known as New England. They were called the Puritans. Puritans were Protestant Christians that were upset with churches in England. Their arrival to Colonial Massachusetts was the purpose of starting a new life. The life of the Puritans revolved around religion
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The Salem Witch Trials and the Holocaust show the darker sides of humanity. The past is riddled with dark intents.There are things in past that humanity would rather forget for humans have done shamed ourselves throughout history .Both the Salem Witch Trials and the Holocaust show variants of the darker side of humanity. Salem Witch Trials and Holocaust both brought one playing card to the table mass hysteria(Riley loomis). Both of these things both punished and alienated the people that were believed
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In the Salem Witch Trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village. They claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused a lot of women of being witches. More than 200 people were accused of being a witch. They were doing the devil's work and 20 of them were executed. Similarity and difference of the Salem Witch Trials and the Muslims. Muslims are being accused of something they did not do. In the Crucible They are being accused of doing
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Why do people slaughter others without knowing the truth? The Salem Witch Trials and The Rosewood Massacre are perfect examples of the innocent killings. During the Salem Witch Trials, people were killing others because thoughts of witchcraft were occurring, and during the Rosewood Massacre, innocent people were killed because women said she was raped. On January 1, 1923 the massacre took place in a small town heavily populated by African Americans in central Florida (Goodloe). The massacre
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