1. We know about the Salem Witch Trials because 29-year-old Cotton Mather was asked by the ________minister_________ of the colony to ______write a book on_______ an account of the Witch crisis.

2. Reverend Samuel Paris, the minister of Salem Village, had a 9 year old daughter named ____Betty_________ Paris and an 11-year old niece named Abigail ___Williams________.

3. In January of 1692, the girls were “afflicted” by invisible agents. A doctor came in, couldn’t understand what was wrong with the girls, and diagnosed ____Bewitched__________.

4. The crime of witchcraft is punishable by ________death___________.

5. An Irish woman named Goody Glover was accused of being a witch. On November 16th, 1688, she was hanged because she could not ____recite______recite words “prayer _______lords prayer________.

6. Witchcraft has its roots in folk _____________tale______.

7. In the 1490’s, European churches began a campaign to ______stop_________ all remnants of paganism. Over the next 150 years, an estimated _____2,000______________ people were burned and hanged. By the mid 1600’s, these persecutions stopped.

8. _____John Winthrop______________ founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1628. They had strict religious principles. Their idea was to purify the Church of England.

9. Betty Paris and Abigail Williams seemed to be possessed, presumably by a which. Tituba, Paris’s Indian servant, baked a __________Cake___________, made with the afflicted girl’s urine and fed it to a dog. According to folklore, the dog would then point the way to the witch possessing the girls. This use of Folk magic angered Samuel Paris.

10. What are some reasons the children may have seemed possessed? * Got sick from eating the wheat * Faking it * Deeply affected their soul
11. The Puritans believed that Native Americans worshiped _______a master