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Salem Witchcraft Trials Elizabeth Proctor
1,027 wordsThe play The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, was about the Salem witchcraft trials that killed many Puritans in Massachusetts. In this play, Miller shows the reader that the Puritans, as a whole were not as godly as they were portrayed. Miller also shows how mass hysteria can be sparked by almost anything. The play takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Reverend Parties daughter, Betty, falls sick and for some reason the townspeople suspect witchery. Taking advantage of this situation,...
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Salem Witch Trials Put To Death
1,706 wordsThe evidence of witchcraft and related works has been around for many centuries. Gradually, though, a mixture a religious, economical, and political reasons instigated different periods of fear and uncertainty among society. Witchcraft was thought of as a connection to the devil that made the victim do evil and strange deeds. (Sutter par. 1) In the sixteenth, seventeenth, and twentieth century, the hysteria over certain causes resulted in prosecution in the Salem Witch Trials, European Witchcraf...
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The Salem Witch Trials A Research
1,845 wordsWhy do you hurt these children? I do not hurt them. I scorn it. Have you made no contract with the devil? No! Mr. John Hawthorn, a Judge involved in the witchcraft case of Sarah Good, then asked all of the afflicted children to look upon her and see if this was the person that had hurt them so. They all gazed at Goody Good and said that this was the person that tormented them presently they were all tormented. Puritanical beliefs had all of Salem truly believing that witches rode on broomsticks ...
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Salem Witchcraft Trials People Of Salem
1,147 wordster> Witchcraft, Insanity, and the Ten Signs of Decay Since there never was a spurned lover stirring things up in Salem Village, and there is no evidence from the time that Tituba practiced Caribbean black magic, yet these trials and executions actually still took place, how can you explain why they occurred? The Salem Witchcraft Trials began not as an act of revenge against an ex-lover, as they did in The Crucible, but as series of seemingly unlinked, complex events, which a paranoid ...
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Causes Of The Salem Witch Craft Trials
1,111 words... Hanson was certain that the girls were not possessed, but clinically insane (x). And that, he explained, may have been the result of witchcraft which, contrary to popular belief, is psychogenic, rather than occult. That means that the girls may have experienced their hysterical symptoms as a result of their fear. Regardless, the girls were insane, Hanson contended, long before any clergyman got to them. Another possible explanation for the girls insanity was ergot poisoning, a common problem...
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Salem Witch Trials Ergot Poisoning
2,111 words... quite promising. He compared their behaviors from that of ventriloquists, to highly accomplished actresses (Upham, 1978, p. 345). All three of the first women accused of witchcraft made prime candidates for the girls to place such blame upon. Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osbourne were all of questionable character in town, which made it easier for the girls to escape blame for themselves. Sarah Osbourne was an elderly, widowed woman who had not gone to church in about one year, which was co...
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Salem Witchcraft Trials Accused Of Witchcraft
2,213 wordsWitchcraft, Insanity, and the Ten Signs of Decay Since there never was a spurned lover stirring things up in Salem Village, and there is no evidence from the time that Tituba practiced Caribbean black magic, yet these trials and executions actually still took place, how can you explain why they occurred? The Salem Witchcraft Trials began not as an act of revenge against an ex-lover, as they did in The Crucible, but as series of seemingly unlinked, complex events, which a paranoid and scared grou...
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Salem Witch Trials Accused Of Witchcraft
4,279 wordsThe Salem witchcraft trials of 1692, which resulted in 19 executions, and 150 accusations of witchcraft, are one of the historical events almost everyone has heard of. They began when three young girls, Betty Parris, Abigail Williams and Ann Putnam began to have hysterical fits, after being discovered engaging in forbidden fortune-telling (not dancing naked in the woods) to learn what sorts of men they would marry. Betty's father, the Reverend Samuel Parris, called in more senior authorities to ...
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