derr.. people were just paranoid because they couldn't explain certain things, and that's how they "explained" it
no The Witch Trials of Salem was all a lie, though they did convict many of being witches, with no proof other than the testimonies of the colonists.
The last of the Salem Witch trials ended in may 1693
During the Salem witch trials, they didn't dunk the witches. That was a European thing. The Europeans believed that if you tied a supposed witch up and attached stones before putting them in the water. If they floated, the devil was holding them up and therefore they were a witch. If they sank, they were innocent and probably dead.
Bridget Bishop
1692
Anna Myers' Time of the Witches took place in Salem, Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials.
A famous witch trial in which 19 people were hanged, but they were all innocent
A dead witch. In 1692, there were the Salem Witch Trials, and I must say that an awful lot of women were burned, both innocent and guilty, because they were accused of witchcraft simply because they could heal people that (male) doctors couldn't. People have always been afraid of things they know nothing of, and that's why witches in the 1600s were feared above most else. EDIT: First, in Protestant England and America, witches were hanged. Second, only 14 women died in the Salem Trials. Third, Every victim of the Salem panic was innocent.
Witches were regarded as supernatural agents of evil.
There were no actual, practicing witches invovled, accused or otherwise existing in Salem during the witch trials.
Torture was no utilized for getting confessions during the Salem Witch Trials.
Between 150 and 200.