Essay On The Causes Of The Salem Witch Trials

In the late spring of 1962 in a village name Salem a group of young girls claimed to possessed name such as the devil. These young girls accused some of the women’s from the village of doing witchcraft. There were also around 150 mans including the woman’s and children accused of witchcraft leading to nineteen men and women to be hanged. Three reasons why led this people to believe was “the teenage boredom”, the stimulation of imaginations of Tituba, and a belief that Satan was recruiting witches and wizards to do work for him. It all began during the winter of January 1692 when eight young girls became ill starting with the daughter of Reverend Samuel Parris as also his niece an 11-year-old name Abigail Williams. As there sickness
This must common ingredient on the infected with ergot. That causes hallucinations, vomiting, crawling sensations and violent fits. It was cause by fungus which invades developing kernels if rye grains. What really happen was that many people from Salem believe that ergot poisoning was the caused of
Salem Witch Trials by eating poisoned food leads to a number of problem by those characterized of the victims of witches in the Salem witch trials. This led to happen because ergot lives better in warm damp, rainy springs and summers the exacts conditions that were presented during 1691-1692 which explain the end of people being “bewitched. The first two girls that were afflicted, was Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams. As they both had eaten the same grain. AS regardless of the cause of the ergot poisoning and the baffling confession of Tituba’s upon questioning, as the diagnose of the bewitchment these elements converged and created an environment of suspicion and reckless that seem abandon as all these elements been missing, perhaps the trials would have never taken