Main Point 1: The Puritans had a very strict religion and thats what brought them to America.…
Samuel Parris was ordained the minister of Salem Village church. Hill then goes into detail of how Betty, Abigail, and their neighbor friends Ann Putnam, Mary Walcott, Mercy Lewis, Elizabeth Hubbard, and more over time all started having strange fits and become “afflicted.” They accused Tituba, Sarah Good (a beggar who would curse at people if they refused her), and Sarah Osborne (had legal issues with the Putnams and was ill) of being witches and said they were the ones who bewitched them. They were the first three to be accused of witchcraft and were sent to prison. Over time they blame a lot more people including church members and higher up people in the social class. Tons of people go to prison and are basically tortured in dungeons. Then on June 10 Bridget Bishop is the first person the be to hanged on Gallows Hill and following are 19 more people who were sentenced to death by hanging except Giles Cory who was pressed to death instead. Some others who were accused of witchcraft died in prison. What finally ends the Salem witch trials is when the afflicted accuse governor William Phipps’ wife of being a witch. He stops imprisonment and in may of 1693 orders the release of all of the people accused of witchcraft that were still in…
A small group of Separatists, or Pilgrims, first went to Holland and then settled the “Plymouth Plantation.” There these new settlers tried to replicate the villages and communities of England. Without assistance from the local Native Americans, the Pilgrims would not have survived in the New World.…
When people think about The Salem Witch Trial, the first thing that comes to mind is “oh it 's just a bunch of wannabe witches being killed.” But in reality they were innocent people being accused by a bunch of little girls trying to get got of trouble. People were very suspicious and paranoid about everything back then-if a few people in the village suddenly became ill, it was because of a "witch". Remember, they had no science to explain anything, so they had to make up stuff that seems ridiculous to us today. They feared what they didn 't know and understand, therefore seeking any kind of solution . . . in this case their fear led to The Salem witch…
The Salem Witch Trials "When the lines between reality and delusion become so blurred, you can no longer know what's real and what is not. " This is a quote by A.B. Shepherd. This can be a direct example of those women accused of being witches in the Salem witch trials. For these women, most of their lives during the year of the trials could have felt a little like this.…
The Salem Witch Trials are known as a series of people being accused and prosecuted of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts beginning in February 1692 until May 1693. The trials began after a group of girls claimed that they were possessed by the devil. Several local women were accused of witchcraft and this began the wave of hysteria that would forever haunt Salem and leave a painful legacy for a long time to come. Nearly every major school of historians has attempted to explain the answer to the mystery of the trials, trying to understand why they occurred. From Marxists who blame class conflict, to Freudians who believe in mass hysteria, the more ecologically based historians who put the blame on hallucinogenic ergot fungus, and now more…
BridgetBishop a woman known for her promiscuity and gossip spreading tonguewent to trial after her accusation. Her third husband Edward Bishopaccused her of witchcraft for being as he said, “a bad wife” and after herconviction on the day June 10th, she was taken to the infamous gallowshill and was hung. Around a month after her execution, on july 19th severalwomen were hung. Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe,Susannah Martin, and Sarah wilds; all hung on the same tree as the otherwitches. After that, there was 5 hangings in august, and in september therewere eight more. Not to mention the several people who would die in prisonor during their trials. Overall 19 were hung and an elderly man was pressedwith stones to death creating twenty official executions. Things changed after governor Phipps of Salem’s wife was accusedof being a witch. He was starting to realize that the things these peoplewere being executed or convicted for were wrong because the evidencewas based off of very spectral things like visions or dreams that…
Meet Ann Putnam Jr. at 12 years old who played a very important part in the witch trials of 1692 as one of three afflicted kids.Anna was the daughter of the Salem witch trials leader. She was born on October 18,1679 in Salem Massachusetts,she was one of three children, Thomas and Ann were her siblings and she was the eldest. In March,1692 she proclaimed to be affiliated. At this time, Ann's Mother Ann was still mourning the death of her daughter and she claimed that later she had been attacked by witches. Another person living in the Putnam house was a lady named Mercy Lewis. Mercy was an orphan as a child, but was remotely related to the Putnam family.…
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” (Exodus 22:18), this was a passage that the Puritans lived by. The Salem Witch Trials took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692 and claimed the lives of many innocent people. It led to the hangings of almost twenty, leaving more than one hundred in prison. A group of young girls in Salem Village accused several local women of witchcraft while being claimed of being possessed by the devil. This is causing a wave of hysteria to spread throughout colonial Massachusetts.…
These people were called witches and were prosecuted heavily until about the end of the 15th century. In Salem Massachusetts the witch infamous witch hunt was partly caused by a new unpopular reverend named Samuel Parris. In 1692 when his daughter and niece began having fits it was easy for him and his daughters to blame it on witchcraft. Another child named Ann Putnam also began experiencing fits, the three girls blamed these fits on witchcraft and claimed they could see the devil. The first three people the girls accused was: Tituba, a Caribbean slave; Sarah Good, a homeless woman; and Sarah Osborne, a widowed poor woman. It was easy for the towns people to believe these three women were witches because they were at the bottom of the society. From here the court demanded the women confess, or they would hang. Tituba was the first to confess to save her own life. This confession caused the townspeople, and the people of the court, to truly believe that witchcraft was real and in the town of Salem. This enabled the three girls to accuse anyone in the town they liked. In turn it enabled Parris to tell his daughter and niece who to accuse, and he was able to rid the town of his…
Bryan F. Le Beau. The Story of the Salem Witch Trials Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.…
The people of Salem were being killed in a whole different manner. Why was this happening, and what was the cause?In Salem, 1692, people were being accused for being witches and for practicing witchcraft. In Salem, at this time people were being hanged for something that didn’t exist. Back then, they didn’t know about fairy tales so when ever they did something wrong they would blame the devil that had entered their body. the Salem witch trial hysteria of 1692 were caused by jealousy,paranormia, and, the teenagers.…
Throughout history there have been endless occurrences that involved the suspicion of witches. Perhaps the most notorious occurrence happened back in 17th century colonial Massachusetts, where the village of Salem was torn apart by the accusations of witchcraft. Many innocent women and men were accused, tried, and executed during the Salem Witch Trials based on the false beliefs surrounding such tests as the touch test, pressing, devil’s marks and other absurd methods of examination.…
The Salem Witch Trials began in Salem, Massachusetts; the massacres could have been caused, historians believe, by many reasons such as the seclusion of the village, sickness, and overall boredom. The trials have many mysteries surrounding them. Historians still cannot come up with one specific cause that caused the ordeal to happen in the first place. They do have, however, the basics of it with some of the mysteries thrown in. Many accounts of the Salem Witch Trials all have something in common, the trials were instigated by eight girls. But then someone might wonder why would the girls start this ordeal in the first place? What drove them to do it? Why would the village believe them in the first place?…
The Salem witch trials were a progression of hearings and arraignments of individuals blamed for witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trial brought about the detainment of 141 individuals and twenty executions. Of those whom were executed, fourteen were ladies and everything except one was hanged, five others passed on in jail.…