Modern Day Witch Trials Book Report

The Salem witch trials was a story of envy, lies, and the danger of the people. Others wouldn’t defend those accused, and if they did, they themselves were eventually charged as witches. In many ways, defending others was condemning yourself. Such was the case for John Proctor in “The Crucible”. John Proctor was someone who had made mistakes, but through his own crucible made peace with himself and defended the honor of himself and the others that would not admit to witchcraft.

She had throw me into that well because of jealousy of our family, she thought that it was to perfect and wanted to destroy it. She had tried earlier when I was just a little baby but I started crying so she failed that time. When Sarah saw that Emily goes to the well, she run against her and tried to push her so she would drop the snowglobe and break it in piecies. Sarah knows now that if it happend we would die. Emily heard when Sarah comes behind her and ducked fast so Sarah fall into the well just before 09.54 and after that we said the

In Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692 by Richard Godbeer examined the witchcraft hysteria which happened in Stamford, Connecticut as the hysteria escaped from Salem, Massachusetts and how the panic of witchcraft caused by Katherine Branch in June of 1692, intensified beliefs and readjustments in the legal system in the Puritans society in Stamford, Connecticut. Consequently, Katherine Branch’s accusations in the summer months of 1692, propelled the Puritan community of Stamford into the witchcraft hysteria, as she claimed to have been bewitched and through spectral visions blamed those of who bewitched her; be they human or animal. As such, Puritans

Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692 by Richard Godbeer is an examination of

Firstly, a circle of girls makes a poor choice of lying about being haunted by witches, which later

In the Salem Witch Trails 20 people were hung because the people in town (mainly woman) would accuse others of being a witch. More than 20 people were accused, it all ended when the mayors wife was accused of being a witch. So what caused the hysteria surrounding the Salem Witch Trials? The Salem Witch Trials In the Salem Witch Trails 20 people were hung because the people in town (mainly woman) would accuse others of being a witch. More than 20 people were accused, it all ended when the mayors wife was accused of being a witch. So what caused the hysteria surrounding the Salem Witch Trials? The Salem Witch Trial hysteria of 1692 was caused by the fear of being accused and hung for a witch the beleife people could be a witch, the belief people could be a witch, and the parranoia of being a witch.

The events that took place leading up to and causing the witch trials were Bacon’s Rebellion, the Little Ice Age, and Stano’s Rebellion. Bacon’s Rebellion was when two leaders were stubborn and both wanted to be in charge. Sterno's rebellion was when A huge group of slaves rose up against the whites. In the Little Ice Age there was snow and cold weather that did not leave it was known as the year without a summer due to the colder climate. Well into the spring time snow covered the ground. A lot of people had to move because their crops were destroyed. The crops were not adapted to the climate and the new weather that had arrived. The trials were brought upon by religion, girls are being targeted, and economic division between the north and the south of the communities. They had pre-existing tension the escalating to cause the witch trials.

The witch trials in continental Europe, which lasted from the late 1300s until around 1650, resulted in an execution of "between 200,000 and 500,000 witches, 85% or more of whom were women."1 There is wide debate between historians arguing about whether or not this is a mass act of sexism—some stating that large groups of men gathered together to blame women for all of their village 's misfortunes, while others state that there were still a high number of males executed for witchcraft, and that anybody could be considered a witch. There is no getting around the fact that gender was a very important factor in the European witch trials, seeing as a majority of victims across the country were women. That being said, the idea of witch-hunts being sexist and specifically targeted towards women is false, rather, the label of "witch" was more frequently added onto powerful women who were viewed as sinful threats to society, resulting in the high number of executed females.

Salem was a city of Christian puritans. Between 40 – 60 percent of the women ranging from 15-44 years of age were unmarried, widows, spinsters, and midwives in the 16th century. All them were in danger of being accused because of either their lifestyle or practices represented as a threat to the church, traditional family structure or the normal status quo of male domination. Salem village was a very religious and form close bonds between each other.

The Salem Witch Trials tried to accuse innocent members of the society of doing witchcraft. The trials began June 2, 1692 in a court house in Salem, Massachusetts (Burgan 18-19). It affected four counties in Massachusetts: Salem Village, Ipswich, Salem Town, and Andover Counties (Totallyhistory.com). Anyone accused would be brought to a local magistrate to testify if they were truly a witch or not. Over two-hundred people were accused of doing witchcraft and 19 people were hanged (Brooks).

The Salem Witch Trials began in 1692 and became one of the most infamous witchcraft episodes in United States history. It all started in the small Puritan village of Salem when little Betty Parris and Abigail Williams become ill and did not show any sign of improvement. This is when Reverend Parris, Betty’s father, called in the village doctor William Griggs. His diagnosis of bewitchment had the village overtaken with mass hysteria that would continue to plague them long after the May 1693 end. During the trials one hundred and fifty six people were accused of witchcraft: fifty four of which confessed, nineteen of which were hanged, four of which died in jail, and one whom was pressed to death.

American History – HY 1110-15L-15 Unit II – Scholarly Activity – Salem Witch Hunt By LeQuay Marsh – 218182 It is extremely challenging to know with a great deal of certainty what happened in 1692 in Salem. However, there are many otherwise reliable sources that suggest that the Salem Witch Hunt began when multiple females from the Village of Salem began demonstrating odd behavior including strange fits with insane responses followed by a mixture of crying and laughing, unintelligible speech, endeavors to fly, and entering into a phase something like that of a trance. This peculiar behavior allegedly began shortly after mysteriously sessions with an Indian slave named Tituba from the Caribbean. During these sessions, the girls would chant with

Looking back to the time of the Salem Witch Hunts, any reasonable person would conclude that those people had gone completely insane. So many citizens were slaughtered merely for the accusation of being a witch. What we may not realize now, is that witch hunts are still very prevalent in our society. Even in this day and age hundreds of thousands of people are persecuted unjustly. The prime example of a witch hunt that has gone on for hundreds of years and is still incredibly prevalent today is the witch hunt, or persecution against Christianity. There are those that believe the persecution of Christians is at an all time high and there are those who feel Christians aren’t necessarily targeted anymore today than they have been throughout history;

The Salem Witch Trials was quite something that was not just or done properly. Throughout the video I have examined some things not right and sometimes humorous because of how they judge and condemn a living soul. The judges acted like God and judge right there at that moment to decide that person's fate to live or to die. How they judge according to the video was they have the so called possessed young girls and then the girls seem to decide the person fate.

In New England the legal system changed dramatically as an effect of the witch trials. A conflict occurred which led to social damaging in a community believed to be plagued with suspected spiritual enemies. Even when such instances occurred the system that was used would be a relatively reasonable one especially when it came to deciding if someone was guilty or innocent was determined by the fate of the suspected witches’ lives.