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Salem Witches

Salem Witches

Do you know the history of the Salem Witch trials? It began with the puritans who were known to put up to 50,000 people to death because they believed they were witches. See more below:

From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging. Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges. Hundreds of others faced accusations of witchcraft; dozens languished in jail for months without trials until the hysteria that swept through Puritan Massachusetts subsided.
Ref. https://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/f...salem/SALEM.HTM

Museum: https://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/

Witches Salem

This shows you how enough false witnesses and zealots to believe in an erroneous interpretation of scripture can cause some of the most heinous crimes imaginable. It also shows you how the supposed civilized of the day were in fact very animalistic and barbarious. In the end, this was all about greed, nothing more.

Salem Witches History & Civil Business Politics

In my high school "The Crucible" is mandatory reading for 10th grade. It is interesting to see how the people in that play used anyway possible to accomplish their ends. It is interesting to see how one little girl,Abigail Williams had enough power to ignite the suspicions of Salem. I always thought it was Abigail's fault for starting the Salem Witch Trials because she got tired of the conservative Puritan society.