Witchcraft trial

March 2012 Important Facts in the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692 Black magic. The Dark Arts. Voodoo. Sorcery. Conjuring. Witchcraft. No matter what they chose to call it, witchcraft was an evil association with the devil and the use of magic or the alleged use of magic, in the eyes of the Puritans of Salem, Massachusetts. And it was the “alleged” part that caused the Salem Witchcraft Trials tragedy of 1692. The Puritans believed the signs of witchcraft were apparent if only people knew what to

The Reason For Mostly Women Being Accused of Witchcraft The Salem Witchcraft trials was an outrageous event that began in 1692, and ended May of 1693 seeing the execution of many people. Unfortunately most of the victims of this phenomenon were women. For the most part these women were accused for very trivial reasons, such as for being widowed, being of old age and living alone, or for simply collecting herbs and other plants. During this time in history women and men were treated very differently

To many people, magic is any event that is unexplainable. According to Christopher Muscato, the belief and practice of magic is known as witchcraft. Around the 17th century, magic was thought to be practiced in every corner of the world. Eventually people began to fear witches and their “witchcraft.” In many places such as Europe and Africa, people began to hunt witches. One of the biggest hunts for witches took place here in America. More specifically, Massachusetts. During the seventeenth century

paranoid and soon residents were placing blame on one another and accusing each other of witchcraft. In a fifteen month period between 1691 and 1692 nearly twelve dozen people were accused of witchcraft in or near Salem (Norton, p8).

Causes of the Salem Witchcraft Trials The Crucible is a play written by Authur Miller that is based on the Salem Witch Trials but is partially made up. The Trials were a series of events that happened from the spite of jealousy, interior motives, fear, and religion. Two hundred people were accused of witchcraft and twenty were hanged for it. And although there are many superstitions about what and why the events occurred, any are yet to be confirmed. But we know for sure that they did not happen

In 1692, the British colony of Massachusetts endured abnormal accusations of witchcraft against more than 150 people (Prentice Hall Literature, p. 1087). Many factors caused the witchcraft hysteria to come alive during the 1600’s. Two important factors were: Daemonologie, written by England’s King James I, and the bewildering behavior of the accusing teenage girls. While Arthur Miller explains that the accusations could have been made over the lust for land, there are also reasons not explained:

Viridiana Albarran US History 1976 I Professor: John Lundberg 11/9/2017 The Salem Witchcraft Trial A fever in Salem: A new interpretation of the New England witch trial. (84) According to the article in the seventeen centuries people would experience all kinds of symptoms that were unmoral. Twisted joints, their vision would become blurry, teeth marks on their body’s would appear and even been capable to bark like a dog. But most imported causing them death. And all of this because

In Salem, witchcraft was not common until one day when a bunch of girls did not want to get caught for dancing. These girls lied about what they were doing and made it a bigger seen than it really was. They would have only gotten whipped for dancing, but instead the got many people killed. They were hung for witchcraft. This is why those girls are the dark forces in Salem. I also think that another dark force is jealousy and vengeance. These are not the main dark forces because many people did these

Salem Witchcraft Trials Research Paper In a small town in Massachusetts called Salem, one the most historical event took place in all of the world. That event was the Salem Witchcraft Trials, the trials were one of the most gruesome events to take place in history, there were accusations, hangings, drownings, torture, and almost all of them led to the final stage in life, death if you were not killed during the trials you would be put into jail for all of your crimes you have committed against God

therefore witch trials. Between the 16th and 18th centuries, there were thousands people accused as witches[18]. Older account suggest as many as 30,000 suspected witches, but research has found evidence of only about 4000 confirmed individual trials[18]. Obviously there would be missing documents to account for, and ‘justice’ improperly performed. In the late Middle Ages, there were few witch trials performed, despite belief in magic - and subsequently witchcraft - was prevailing. Trials were, however