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Essay on Salem Witch Trials
Salem witch trials was the trial and execution of 19 supposed witches at Salem, Massachusetts. The events that took place in the town of Salem and nearby towns in Massachusetts will be forever regarded as one of our young nation's most tarnished moments in history. The Salem witch trials were also known as the Salem witch hunt and the Salem witchcraft episode, which resulted in a number of convictions and executions for witchcraft in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. It was the outcome of a period of factional internal strife and Puritan witch hysteria which led to the deaths of 19 people (mostly female but also male) and the imprisonment of scores more. Witch trials were held in Europe several hundred years before those in Salem. In the town of Salem in 1692, eight young townswomen fell victim to "fits, outbreaks of obscene babbling, and wild partying in the local woodland."
The girls claimed they were bewitched by other members of the community and possessed by the devil. The initial accusers were Betty Parris and her cousin, Abigail Williams. The initial three accused were Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba. Good, orphaned as a teenager at the death of her mother (a French innkeeper), was the town beggar, noted for her strange "muttering". Osborne was a bedridden elderly woman who had gotten on the wrong side of the Puritans when she cheated her first husband's children out of their inheritance, giving it to her new husband. Tituba was the Carib Native American slave of Samuel Parris (a preacher in Salem Village); though she is very often referred to as black in modern historical and fictional interpretations of the trials, there is no evidence that she was anything however Native American.( Boyer, P., and S. Nissenbaum. 1974)
These women were charged with witchcraft on March 1, 1692 and put in detention center....
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