What Caused The Salem Witch Trials

Salem, Massachusetts August 19th, 1692, John Proctor stood on the platform he said as they put the rope around his neck, “I regret nothing! I will not admit to being a witch I am a full puritan and will not lie.” Than they pulled out the stool from underneath him and it broke his neck he died a quick but unjust death. What caused the people of Salem to turn on one another? There were a lot of settlers to travel from Europe to the new world among these people there were the puritans who are going to cause pandemonium in there village very soon. In Salem, Massachusetts, There was 2 little girls named Betty Parris, age 9 and her 11-year-old cousin Abigail Williams running around their village they ran up to a slave named Tituba. They asked the old woman if she could tell them their fortunes. Over the next few months they were acting very strange crawling into holes and under tables and chairs. Under pressure they identified two white women and Tituba as witches. They said that these three women were the ones causing them so much pain. Tituba blamed someone else for putting the devil in her body and the two women were executed for
The accusers were often times poor people and the rich were often the accused. It was pandemonium in Salem 20 people were killed. 19 were hanged and 1 man named Giles Cory was pressed to death. The Salem Witch Trials were caused by many things.
The main reason the witch trials happened was because of 2 little girls that were put under pressure. Almost all of the accusers lived on the West side of town. The West had poor soil and all the people there were poor. The accused witches mostly lived on the East side of town. The East had great soil and most of the people there were rich. The witch trials were a horrible time in our history. Will the witch trials or something like it happen again or are people today smart