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    Although the European witch craze has been embraced by mainstream culture it is distorted and shrouded in controversy especially when trying to trace its origins. The widespread witch craze in Europe is not a simplistic reaction as it is portrayed in the media but rather a build up of frustration at the political‚ social‚ and religious institutions throughout the continent. The idea of witchcraft in Europe‚ through a myriad of wars that fractioned society based upon belief‚ alongside support from

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    Symposium Essay Witch Hunts As you have heard‚ witch legends credited the accused of some pretty extravagant and crazy things. Witchcraft and Sorcery were serious crimes and as such‚ had both serious trial procedures and very grave consequences. The people persecuting them‚ Inquisitors and lead hunters were well respected and thought be to doing good work. All of Europe had Witch trials and witch hunts. (And very famously‚ so did Salem Massachusetts.) I am going to talk to you a little bit about

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    The 16th and 17th centuries experienced a great shift of ideals with the Reformation that contributed to the rise of witch-hunts. Although the Reformation is notorious for the disagreement between the Protestants and the Catholics‚ what both groups agreed on was that witches were to be punished for their evil deeds. The two major religious figures during this time were John Calvin and Martin Luther. These two men believed in non-clerical celibacy‚ and less stress on chastity before marriage. Now

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    The Salem witch trials scared many people during its time. During this time people accused each other of being witches. Many of the accused were killed because they would not admit to being a witch. The causes of the Salem witch trials were town division‚ lying girls‚ and jealousy. Town division helped spark the horrible events of the Salem witch trials. The town could be divided by race‚ social status‚ or wealth. Document E shows us that the accusers are on one side of the town and the accused

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    In Exodus 22:18‚ it proclaims‚ “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live!” In 1692 Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ the Puritans believed every word that the Bible said‚ causing the death of twenty people because they were accused of witchcraft. What caused the panic and alarm that lead to the death of twenty people in Salem? There were three causes: conflict between young girls and older women‚ lying teenagers‚ economic and political power divided between two sides of town. One possible cause could be the conflict

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    What if the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692 was caused by a simple lie? What would you be thinking? There’s no way? That’s impossible? There have been many ideas of what caused the Salem Witch Trials researched by historians‚ but most of them are not true‚ most of them can’t be backed. But first we must review some key vocabulary; Hysteria. Hysteria is an outbreak of emotion or fear. The three most logical causes of the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692 are biased amongst the community‚ attention

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    Twenty people died from accusations of witchcraft in early Colonial America. All of these accusations must have been false‚ since witchcraft is humanly impossible. The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were caused because of poor social relations between the citizens‚ the unstable mental conditions of the colonists‚ and religious beliefs in the Salem village. Poor social relations between the residents played into their thoughts about witches among the crowd. If a Salem girl wanted to “stir the

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    In 1692‚ Salem‚ Massachusetts broke out into hysteria all because of an accusation about a witch. When a few teenage girls began accusing the older woman of Salem of witchcraft‚ suspicions started flying around. Soon neighbors were accusing each other‚ calling the Puritan church to get involved. After the church got involved many innocents lost their lives. Most of the teenage girls that accused the women of witchcraft‚ wanted their husbands for land and money. Not that the women did anything to

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    Chapter 10 Launching the New Ship of State‚ 1789–1800 1. New Government Launched a. List two examples used by the authors to illustrate the precarious nature of the new country in 1789: (1) (2) b. Drafted by James __________‚ the first ten amendments to the Constitution (the Bill of __________) are designed to ____________ (enhance or restrict) federal power. Why was such an enumeration of rights one of the first orders of business when the first Congress met in 1789?

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    The Salem Witch Crisis began during the winter of 1691-1692. In Salem Village‚ Massachusetts‚ when Betty Parris‚ the nine-year-old daughter of the village’s minister‚ Samuel Parris‚ and his niece‚ Abigail Williams‚ fell strangely ill. The girls complained of pinching‚ prickling sensations‚ knifelike pains‚ and the feeling of being choked. Some weeks later‚ three ore girls showed similar symptoms. Doctors began to suspect that witchcraft was the reason of the girl’s symptoms. Document A is a discourse

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