Summary: The Salem Witch Trials

Tituba was a slave to a man by the name of Reverend Samuel Parris. The two other women went by the names of Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne. To my knowledge, Tituba seemed to be the main cause to the witchcraft assumptions. I believed that Tituba started most of the assumptions in the result of, she would take her master’s daughter and niece (Betty Parris and Abigail Williams), out to the woods. Furthermore, when she would take the girls out to the woods, Tituba would tell stories of voodoo and “black magic.”

The Wurzburg Witch trials started in a territory around the city in 1626. Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn (the Prince Bishop of Wurzburg) gave the consent needed for the trials to begin. They reached climax under Philipp Adolf von Ehrenbuerg; the nephew and successor of Julius. The Wurzburg Witch Trials took place during a witch hysteria that resulted in a series of trials.

During this apparent incident a man named Cotton Mather wrote and published a book about an incident of witchcraft. This made the people think that Betty Parris was a witch. After other local girls developed similar symptoms, they called a doctor. After the doctor couldn’t figure out what was wrong with them and said that their problems may have a ‘supernatural origin’ more people started believing that they were

She predicted the Spanish Armada, the Great Plague, and some assume the internet: “around the world thoughts shall fly in the twinkling of an eye.” For her sake, Mother Shipton died a normal death and was said to be buried on unholy ground near the outer edges of York in 1561. The Salem Witch Trials started in the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem, a village in Massachusetts, were said to be possessed by the devil and a few women were accused of witchcraft. Hysteria spread through colonial Massachusetts to the extent a special court was opened to hear the cases. Bridget Bishop was the first witch hung.

Between 1692 and 1693, in Salem Village, Massachusetts, the Salem witch trials were taking place. In the event, many were accused of witchcraft and some were even executed. This event had left many curious as to what caused the people to accept witchcraft and treat it as a crime. To explain the trials, Paul Boer and Stephen Nissenbaum wrote the book Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft in which they analyzed and broke down key components of the witch trials.

The girls were accused of having “fits”, that means that they were contorting their bodies

In both The Crucible and in modern day witch hunts, witch hunts are caused out of fear or for personal gain. Jill Schonebelen wrote a research paper on Witchcraft allegations, refugee protection and human rights. Throughout this article, it mentions the persecution of witches today in communities around the globe, mentioning the flashbacks of similar strategies that were used in the past, doing different types of tortures. In Modern days, recent generations have abandoned wonderful traditions. Rather, recollecting others with distasteful memories such as witchcraft.

John Hawthorne was a well-known judge, Governor Williams Phips chose Hawthorne to be one of the judges in the witch trials because he always sided with the accusers no matter what the accused said to him or showed him in the court room he would always ask them to plead guilty and tell him other people who were supposedly witches even though they were innocent. John Hale was a minister who was brought in to save the town from witch craft. Cotton Mather was also a judge who was appointed to the Salem witch trials by Governor William Phips. According to jess Bloomberg after Governor Phips wife was accused of witchcraft he prohibited the arrest of anyone who is accused of witchcraft and he pardoned half of the accused and disbanded the court of oyer and terminer. He replaced it with the superior court of judicature and they only condemned 3 out of 56 but by the time he pardoned all of the accused 19 people where hung and one was pressed to death by

It was a series of hearings before local magistrates, which led to county court trials to persecute people accused of witchcraft. Trials took place against the theocratic, Puritan British colony where the church ruled in civil matters.

Having converted from a pagan to a catholic I have been ridiculed by peers and called a devil worshipper. I find it funny that when people hear the words witch or magic they automatically think there is an association with the devil. At a certain point I started to feel like it was 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts the only things missing were a noose and giant cross. What’s funny is that my interest in the Salem Witch Trials is what began my obsession with all things Wiccan. Unbeknownst to my family I started practicing and I started to become addicted.

In 1692 the beginning of the Salem witch trials began. A few decades later a similar occurrence happened in 1950 with the spread of McCarthyism. What started both the Salem witch trials and McCarthyism was the spread of fear and mass hysteria. Puritans during 1692 believed that the new world should be a holy place with freedom to practice your own personal religion. When witchcraft came around the puritans noticed strange behavior between the young teenage girls for example being choked by an invisible force or falling out on the floor as if possessed.

Two of the main women were: Tituba and Sarah Good. Tituba was the first witch to confess in Salem. She had apologized for hurting the people she had hurt and went on further to say that she did not mean any harm. She also told the prosecutors about the rest of the witches. One being, Sarah Good.

Abigail. She send her spirit on me in church; she makes me laugh at prayer!” (Miller, 187). He ends up believing them and makes the wrong choices. He believes crooked Abigail when she says that Tituba is a witch.

What Caused the Salem Witch Trials Hysteria of 1692? 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?

Realistically, the only evidence that survives to the present is found in the Connecticut state Archives. According to the Archives, “The Jury finds the Bill of Indictment against Mary Johnson, that by her owne confession shee is guilty of familiarity with the Deuill.” While this single notation does confirm the charges of witch craft against her, it does not reveal the specific accusations against her; nevertheless, this single case of witchcraft proved to profoundly influence future witch craft