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    What Caused the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692? All starting in June‚ 1692‚ the Salem Witch Trial hysteria was a period when people were constantly being accused of witchcraft. A witch is someone who is taken over by the devil and portrays the actions of the creature. This mainly happened to women. Historians are still trying to figure out why people would accuse others of witchcraft. Some think it was because of the paranoia from the Native American raids. Hallucinogens were also another suggestion

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    What Caused the Salem Witch Trials Hysteria in 1692?    Malik1   Sana Malik  Mrs. Zachary   Social Studies   12/7/14     ​   The Salem Witch Trials in 1692‚ was a series of indescribable events‚ which was powered by  paranoia and fear.The Salem Witch Trials were the examinations‚ trials‚ and executions of  alleged “Witches” beginning in late February 1692 and ending in late October 1692.  Many  guiltless  individuals  were subject to witchcraft‚ that resulted in 19 men and women hung to  death

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    What caused the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria in 1692? "Though shalt not suffer a witch to live"(Bible)! The people of Puritan faith in 1692 concluded they should kill witches with no mercy. In the 1600’s‚ immigrants arrived in the New England colonies. Countless immigrants practiced the Puritan belief. The Puritans believed the Bible was the word of God; they assumed all concepts written were true. The Bible proclaimed killing witches is all right. In 1692‚ in the Puritan town of Salem‚ there was a

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    In the year of 1692 Salem Witchcraft was a big mystery that everyone worried about‚ was the devil coming to town? The Puritans used the Bible "to guide them through this difficult life". Until‚ witchcraft began and they started to hang people so they can be with God. There were many reason on what caused the Salem Witch Trials. But‚ after looking over evidence these are the reasons the Salem Witch Trials hysteria of 1692‚ were caused by the Puritans beliefs‚ the attention seeking girls‚ and the Ergot

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    Blanca Hernandez What Caused the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria? “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” (Exodus 22:18); a phrase that the early Puritans took all too seriously in the Salem Witch trials of the 1600’s. The event that led a historical witch hunt and caused the death of many victims would forever leave its print on America. It all began when a group of young girls accused a fortune teller of oppressing them. This would start a snowball effect that would eventually lead to dozens more

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    What Caused the Hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. What caused the salem trials‚ there are many reasons‚ It could have been because of the things that were going on in Salem but there are many reasons for why this happend‚ I will explain a couple of the reasons‚ many people were accused to be witches‚ many people in salem were killed for being accused of being witches. Know one really knows why this started but it was horrible they were brutally killed and many were in prison. Sometimes

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    The salem witch trials hysteria of 1692 was caused by the Puritans strict religious standards and intolerance of anything not accepted with their scripture. The largest account of witch trials as well as deaths by witch trials occurred in Salem‚ a village heavily populated with the Puritans. Because most of the trials were occurring in Salem‚ this meant that the accusations were happening among the Puritans themselves‚ which could very well be anything as long as the Puritans found it as contradicting

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    What caused the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692? During the summer of 1692‚ nineteen people were hung and one pressed to death‚ because they were accused of practicing or aiding the process of witchcraft. The Salem Witch Trials were started by a preconceived notion that witchcraft was real based on religious texts and ministers‚ or that being in a wrong place at the wrong time was the doing of witch. In addition‚ all of the accused were tried with in the sights of four young

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    The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 In colonial Massachusetts between February of 1692 and May of 1963 over one hundred and fifty people were arrested and imprisoned for the capital felony of witchcraft. Trials were held in Salem Village‚ Ipswich‚ Andover and Salem Town of Essex County of Massachusetts‚ but accusations of witchcraft occurred in surrounding counties as well. Nineteen of the accused‚ fourteen women and five men‚ were hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem Village. Hysteria had swept through

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    tumbles from ones lips‚ it spreads like a disease throughout the community. The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 was the outcome of multiple factors. These factors include jealousy over people‚ the feel of power/control‚ and the fear and/or anxiety of their surroundings and the threat of punishment. Jealousy provided fuel towards accusing witches by venting ones emotions onto another. The accusers of the Salem Witch Trials were young girls and one woman‚ since the afflicted were so young‚ their own emotions

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