Witch Vs Court Room

Even though it was a courtroom, spectral evidence was used in many ways. Spectral evidence is when a witness is saying that somebody’s spector or spirit appeared to them in a dream and they are using it to testify against whoever is on trial. When the accusers were having fits and screaming and thrashing in odd ways, the courtroom did not tell them to quiet down, they instead believed that the accused witch in the room was guilty, it was a horrid sight. “(According to the Salem Witch Trials- DBQ)” Document 6- The examination of Bridget Bishop, when she moved her head all of the afflicted moved their head, then she turned up her eyes and the afflicted turned up their eyes. When the accused witch looked or moved a muscle, the accusers magically moved the same muscle. According to Joan Holub’s What Were the Salem Witch Trials? “The girl accusers tumbled to the floor if Bridget happened to look their way, as if her invisible specter had knocked them down.” (Holub 61). Even though the accused witches plead

“You're a witch!” is something that was probably said a lot in Salem, Massachusetts in the year 1692. The people of Salem went crazy and in the end 20 people were killed because they were believed to be witches. The Salem witch trials were caused by jealousy of wanting. What kind of wanting? Woman who wanted men, people who wanted to be wealthy, and the people who wanted attention.

20 people were hanged for being accused for being a witch, in the period of three months. The people involved were the men and women in Salem ,but the women played a big role in the salem witch trial. Women were being accused of being a witch mainly women and the people accusing these women were mostly young girls. Over 20 people were hanged for being accused of being a witch but also for defending them. My opinion for what caused the Salem Witch Trial hysteria was that Jealous poor women accused rich old women of being witches to get their husbands.

This essay is about how the justice and court system changed after the Salem Witch Trails. Many years ago young girls were blaming older women as witches. All the witches were being killed even if they say they didn't do anything. These womens had kids, family, and good lifes, until they were picked as doing witch craft. Every one believed these girls wheater or not they were lying. Until the mayor got blamed as a witch, thats when people started doubting the girls.

"Thou shall not suffer a witch to live,” Exodos 22;18. Men or women with an unexpected flap of skin on a person's body or as “witch”s tit”. Anger followed by mischief. A man that could hold a rifle, arm barrel. What do these things have similar?They were all accused of witchcraft. In 1692 they were many trials accusing people of witchcraft. What could have caused the Salem witch trial hysteria of 1692? These causes were that they were fundamentalist,ergotism,hysteria.

What was the cause of the witch trial? There maybe many reasons why there were witch trials but something had to cause it right?

The Magician, the Witch, and the Law was a timeline of the people, events, and documents that significantly influenced the development of magic and witchcraft persecution. Edward Peters formed his timeline beginning with early Christianity and ending with the sixteenth century. The study argued that these people, events, and documents led to the persecution and burning of witches in the seventeenth century. The timeline began with the explanation of harsh Greek and Roman laws against magos. The laws were harsh because magic was a disruption of society and the cause of political instability (9). Magos were practitioners of magic or those who used the power of divine or demonic sources. Christians were primarily concerned with first proving that

Witch trials are not new to people who know or enjoy history, in fact, they are a staple of Early Modern European history. It is a common misconception that witch trials were nothing but an excuse to hunt shadows and get back at people they did not like, that there was a sense of mad hysteria like in The Crucible. The Trial of Tempel Anneke is a trial record from 1663 that on the surface does not have much too it, but in fact shows the reader a lot of the inner psyche of common people from this time as well as how empirical the courts were in these court trials

Puritan Societal gender biases against women prompted what was called the "Witch Trials". Some trials took place in Europe around the same time, but my focus is about the trials that took place in Early America in New England. History notes these areas to be mostly in Hartford, Fairfield, and Salem. The latter being the most infamous and the most published. Although the question has been asked many times, there has not been a definite answer on Why did the trials take place? What happened to cause this phenomenon? There were several factors involving bias such as socioeconomic, historical, psychological and religious factors, but most notable were the gender biases that was evident. With all of these underlying influences, it was apparent that the one common link was women and the varying roles that they played during this time. Documented research states that approximately 78% of those accused were women (Karlsen, 1987) and similarly those who were executed were a high percentage of women.

The Salem Witch Trials, also know as the Salem Witchcraft Trials were legal proceedings which took place of course in the Salem Village of Massachusetts. These trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in the village, claimed to be possessed by the devil accusing several local women of practicing the craft. Victims were prosecuted and executed for reputedly practicing witchcraft, when little to no evidence of the act itself existed. This historical period resulted in twenty people, mostly women, being hung for black magic conspiracies. Neighbors accused neighbors; even church members accused other church members of witchcraft. Others were accused, but fled the area before they could be arrested. During this time

The witchcraft hysteria of 1692 happened within the Puritan colony known as Salem Massachusetts. It’s important to know that the belief in witchcraft was carried over from their home country, England. In England, an act of witchcraft was considered treason against the Church of England, not to mention the king, who was the head of the church, so if one was to turn their back on the church also meant going against the king. Many acts against witchcraft were passed, the one dated closest to the Salem witch trials was the Witchcraft Act of 1604 that moved trials of the supposed witches from churches to actual courts. The fact that they were once held in churches rather than courts seems like a biased situation to me. The puritans were afraid of witchcraft so having the church conduct the trials of said witches could only mean that death was certain. The puritan faith to my understanding was a tough faith to follow, especially for women.

History shows the remarkable things that society has done over the years, it also shows where society failed and mistakes were made. This is the case of the Salem Witch Trials. The people of Salem experienced an event that would change them and the course of this country forever. The mass hysteria and rampant paranoia that swept New England in 1692, is what turned neighbor against neighbor. The Salem villagers would accuse one another of casting spells, consorting with the devil, and being witches, all of which was a punishable crime in the 17th century. ("Search")

There are many differences between now and the salem witch trials. 300 years ago the salem witch trials were happening because of hysteria that the church made in order to keep authority over the people. The target were women because they were the inferior gender, while the Males were the superior gender. “Giles: It discomfits me! Last night- mark this- I tried and tried and could not say my prayers. And then she closed her book and walks out of the house, and suddenly - mark this- I could pray again! (Miller, 38)” the Quote from the passage shows that since Giles’ wife is reading a book that is not the bible she is automatically categorized as a witch. The only book that women were

What had been just a suspicion turned into a craze, the conflict these people had created would kill many innocent people until a compromise was found. Most women accused as witches were older, ugly, and unkempt (Wilson; 26; Roach 84). If someone was different in any way they could be accused as a witch; age, physical disability, mental disability, looked down on, powerless, outcasts, or criminals (Smith; how). The witch trials would then continue, so special courts were needed. A special court was set up by Sir William Phips to decide the fate of the witches. The two courts were Oyer; to hear, and terminer; to decide the fate of witches (Cellania; Roach 3). People were accused as a witches if they denied their existence (Latson). All the witches had

The Great Noise Witchcraft can be traced back to the time of cavemen, with most witch trials being held in the 1500's-1800's. The most well known witch trial/witch hunt in Sweden is that of "Det Stora Oväsendet" (The Great Noise), which occurred between 1668-1676, where close to 280 people-men and women- were decapitated then burned. Included in these people were Malin Matsdotter, Brita Zippel and Anna Zippel; three of Sweden's most notorious witches in history. Malin Matsdotter, at 63 years old, was accused by her daughters of taking children-including her grandchildren-to Satanic rituals to use as sacrifices. Matsdotter adamantly refused to confess even after torture, so the court took that as Satan controlling her and burned her to death, as the law stated that if one did not confess to being a witch after