Why did the Salem witch trials end?

Answer 1

The trials officially ended because once the queen was accused she demanded that the trials be stopped

EDIT:

The Queen was not accused. The wife of the Massachusetts governor was accused and the governor demanded a stop to the Trials and wrote to London for the power to pardon all the imprisoned.

Answer 2

The mass hysteria ended when one of the afflicted girls accused the govenors wife and he stopped the trials. It also ended when people noticed that fewer people were actually confessing and more people were hanging.

Answer 3

Some of the ministers helped stop the trials. The colonies were becoming more worldly. Religious people were tired of the killing so they helped too. Judges got tired of the madness in the courts. The Governer of Massachusetts found out that innocent people were dying. At least fifty people were in jail by the end of the witch hunt. Three papers were signed to stop the trials. In 1711 the Massachusetts legislature made payments to the families of the witch hunt victims. It ended in less than a year.

Answer 4

As the panic died down in Massachusetts, the pattern of people named as witches had grown suspicious. More and more powerful members of society that had no part in the trials were accused. An inordinate number of ridiculous accusations caused the governor to review the evidence. In October, 1692, he barred the spectral evidence that had convicted the executed. With the only evidence that was presented, the remainder of the cases tried were thrown out. In May, 1693, prisoners remaining in prison were ordered released.

Answer 5

They ended primarily because the hysteria waned. The masses weren't believing the accusations and the secular officials were joining them. The trials were really doomed when Governor William Phips made the spectral evidence that had supported all of the convictions inadmissible at trial. And, simply, panic will eventually end.

Answer 6

Governor William Phips of Massachusetts called an end to the trials at the advice of Increase Mather and because of a spike in ludicrious accusations, including that of his wife.