Tempel Anneke: Records Of A Witchcraft Trial

Three deranged girls, from 1692 Salem; Massachusetts, precipitated the mass hangings of twenty innocent people accused of witchery for the reason that of their adept prowess at acting, their marital status and jealousy of the newfound eastern wealth.

exceedingly common with the nobility of the middle ages Eleanor mentions that having a husband who was faithful could be boring which she quotes her former marriage with King Louis VII. Eleanor and Henry were both passionate and stubborn. They were both active in political affairs. even after Their marriage began to deteriorate. Eleanor still maintained power and authority at the lowest points of her life. She was quick-witted intelligent and manipulative in the way a great queen could be her favorite son was Richard otherwise known as Richard the lion-hearted who was a skilled fighter and a natural leader and could eventually become king After King Henry died and she was released from prison.

Salem witchcraft trials started in New England and caused a lot of deaths and hysteria for the people of Salem, Massachusetts. Innocent women and men were hung just for being accused by their fellow friends and neighbors. Witchcraft in the 17th century was a big taboo that people feared.

Laurie Halse Anderson’s use of central conflict, the fever, has helped mold the main character’s character traits. Laurie Halse Anderson wrote Fever 1793, a historical fiction novel. The protagonist, Matilda Cook, is a 13 year old girl living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during colonial times. The yellow fever has broken out, and people are dropping at an alarming rate. As she deals with the epidemic, she grows to become a strong, responsible, helpful girl.

The death of Edgar Allen Poe has been a mystery quite sometime as the details surrounding it are very few and the few we do have are quite vague. Through all of the unclear details two theories have arisen. The first theory of Poe’s death was alcohol poisoning. Poe was found outside of a tavern in a disoriented state of mind and for an unknown reason was wearing someone else’s clothes. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he was put into a room where he could recover from his apparent drunken state. The next morning when the doctor check on him they realized something was quite wrong as his condition had gotten worse. He had also now become delirious and had tremors throughout his limbs, not violent but very shaky and , was constantly going

"The story of witchcraft is primarily the story of women . . . ." Karlsen argues for the relevance and importance of women’s roles in the panic of witchcraft fear in 17th Century American society. She subtly contests that specific interests were at work in the shaping of witchcraft accusations; book elaborates that a specific type of woman risked accusation based on her demographic representation in society.

Although the whole book had information on the Salem witch trials. The introduction, chapter 1 and 2 and the conclusion had information regarding the research needed

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.

Can you imagine being accused of a crime that you did not commit? This is exactly what happened from June 10th to September 22nd. Twenty innocent women were put to death in a small town by the name of, Salem Boston. This was called the “ Salem Witch Trials.” The Salem Witch Trials were due to a variety of things. Jealousy , lying, and attention are 3 of most important factors.

There were bizarre things that happened throughout history, but the most bizarre thing was the women in the Salem Witch Trials. The Salem Witch Trials happened in 1692. The Salem Witch Trials was the oddest thing that happened in Massachusetts.During the Salem Witch Trials young girls displayed odd behaviors, physicians were called to examine the girls and could not find any natural causes of their odd behavior, and the young girls were pressured into revealing who was controlling them ( “The Salem Witch Trials, 1692”).

Women in the Middle ages were treated as the second class members within their social class. They were taught to be obedient to their husbands and were expected to run the household and raise children. Their role in the society, however, was much more complex, while some medieval women achieved a high level of equality with men.

The Salem witch trials were the prosecution of people accused of witchcraft in Massachusetts from June to September 1692 by the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Though the trials were held in Salem, the accused were brought in from the neighboring towns of Amesbury, Andover, Topsfield, Ipswich, and Gloucester as well. To this day the trials are considered the epitome of injustice, paranoia, scapegoating, mass hysteria, and mob justice. The results were almost 200 arrests, 19 executed “witches”, one man pressed to death, one man stoned to death, and two dogs killed because they were suspected to be familiars of their owners who were accused of being witches. (Familiars are evil spirits in the form of animals used by witches to cast spells and perform

The witch trials in Salem in the year 1692 was a scowling time in American history. The New York Post explains about The Crucible play that “... at a time when America was convulsed by a new epidemic of witchhunting, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil.” In The Crucible, John Proctor and his wife are hit with many situations which burdens their relationship. While this is going on, many people were being accused as witches for little incidents which they thought would add up to witchcraft. During this time period, the grudges and personal rivalries between people makes these witch trials immoral and unethical.

A poverty-stricken widow, who’s boss had tried to help her out in her time of need, was accused of being a witch because of claims of cannibalism and killing children, but when you analyze what had happened, one can come to the conclusion that the children had caught the plague, as it took a few days for them to die, and Europe was facing random outburst of the plague over several centuries, but the townsfolk had to find something to blame for the deaths of those children and they chose to kill another (Doc 1). The people accusing the innocent, the shop owners, and the staff of the court of often had ulterior motives, usually in the form of wealth and greed, as they had burned and tortured a great number of people, as noticed by the Canon Linden in Trier, Germany (Doc 2). No one was left unscathed by the accusation of being a witch, even Alice Prabury, who attempted to help both animals and people, who were sickened, but yet she was accused of witchcraft and spreading the plague (Doc 4), though this isn’t surprising as those who belonged to the lower class, as defined by their husband’s occupation, were much more likely to be accused of witchcraft, especially for the wives of laborers and farmers, though this is to be expected, as those viewed as little class were among the presence of those who affected drastically by the socioeconomic changes of Europe, especially the plague, rebellions, and income inequality and changes (Doc

The witches were at first tried for heresy, which was the act of going against the church, this was tried in the ecclesiastical court. However, when Kramer brought forth the Malleus Malificarum, one of the three parts he had written was how witches were to be prosecuted then how they were before. It demonstrated that the witches in question were instead of being tried under religious court, as they had been, but they were to be tried in secular court, which had the backing of the Malleus Malificarum, where the ecclesiastical court did not. The ecclesiastical court shied away from the Malleus Malificarum from ever becoming a part of the religious court. This was the manifestation of how they used, in Kramer’s terms, physical magic. This was a separate crime not only from going against the church as a heretic, but also committing a crime against the government. As in court today, people are tried for property damage, personal assault, etc. This was also used in trials in the medieval times as well, however, they were not as fair. Kramer’s definition of physical magic opened a new door which allowed these women to be prosecuted in secular court. Especially widows, women had no say in how their trial would be influenced, or how fair of a trial they would have. This included very personal questions asked in front of