Around 160 were formally complained about.
she was an "afflicted" girl who accused many people of witch craft
Salem Witch Trials had to do with a group of girls accusing women for witch craft, while in McCarthyism a man accused people for being communist.
Torture was no utilized for getting confessions during the Salem Witch Trials.
Tituba, Sarah Goode and Sarah Osbourne.
The last person executed for witchcraft in the United States was a woman named Ruth Lee. She was hanged in 1692 during the Salem witch trials, which were notorious for the persecution of individuals accused of witchcraft. Although other accusations and trials occurred afterward, they did not result in executions. The Salem witch trials marked a significant and tragic chapter in American history regarding the treatment of those accused of witchcraft.
Salem witch crafts were in 1962 and it was a group of people that thought they were witchs and got harshly beaten and some times hanged for beliving what they want to
The Salem witch trials happened during the year 1692, the first to be executed was Bridget Bishop. In total 19 people were killed after being found guilty of witch craft, this is not counting the many people that they suspected died in jail.
The Puritans had no idea what number to believe there was. It just kept going up and up. It started at three. Then it went to 9. Then in the forties. Then into the hundreds. We now know that there were no witches in Salem.
Oh yes. The people were partisan to the Puritan church whose teaching says witches are bad and have to die.
Sarah Good didn't blame any one she was one of the accused for doing which craft on the sick. the only people she blamed was the sick for causing histaria.
Cotton Mather and Deodot Lawson
Sometimes but most of the time if you confessed you were spared. They did this so you could keep up accusations and this way the Salem witch craft trials continued.