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How many people that used witchcraft were put to death at Salem?
Tituba - Reverend Parris' West Indian slave who entertained the girls in Parris' kitchen with stories of her native Caribbean. Tituba and the girls 'in the kitchen are generally credited with having started the hysteria. Tituba was among the first accused of witchcraft. She confessed and was imprisoned. Reverend Parris - minister of Salem Village. Tituba was his slave, and it was in his kitchen where the girls gathered. William Good - husband of Sarah. He testifies against her describing her as "an enemy to all that is good". She denounces him as a wizard. Dorcas Good - four year old daughter of Sarah. She also testifies against her mother claiming that her mother has three "familiars" - two yellow birds and one black. Sarah Osborne - along with Sarah Good and Tituba the first to be accused of witchcraft. During her trail, Sarah Good accuses Osborne of being a witch. Old and infirm to begin with, Osborne dies while imprisoned. Giles Corey - accused of witchcraft, he was pressed to death while refusing to enter a plea. By refusing to enter a plea he preserved his estate for his sons Judge Hathorne - one of the presiding judges of the witchcraft trials and an ancestor of Salem's famous author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Sarah Good was the daughter of a wealthy Wenham innkeeper, but her life had been a long downhill slide since her father's suicide from drowning. Her mother had quickly remarried in order to block the children's inheritance rights. Sarah married a landless man who hired himself out as a laborer. But even with a chronic labor shortage in the colony, individuals hesitated hiring her husband because that would mean taking Sarah into the household, and she was considered shrewish, idle, and slovenly. 

With matted grey hair and a leathered, lined face, Sarah Good looked seventy years old even though she was still of child bearing age. (In fact she was pregnant at the time of her arrest.) With her clay pipe, Sarah Good even looked the part of a witch. She didn't attend church, and recently she had been begging door-to-door and making a general nuisance of herself. 

Along with Tituba and Sarah Osburne, Sarah Good was among the first three women named as witches. All three were arrested on February 29th, 1692. A strong woman, Sarah nearly overpowered the sheriff who came to arrest her. During the initial questioning of the three women, Good accused Sarah Osburne of being a witch, and Tituba confessed to witchcraft. Tituba was released while Good and Osburne were sent to jail. Osburne, who was already ill, died in prison. Good's newborn child also died in prison. Good was joined in prison by her four year old daughter, Dorcas - even though Dorcas had testified against her mother. Dorcas was to remain mentally impaired for the rest of her life as a result of her imprisonment. Even Sarah Good's husband testified against her. 

On June 29th, along with five other women, Sarah Good was tried and convicted of witchcraft. She was hanged on Gallows hill on July l9th. Sarah Good remained defiant to the end. When Reverend Noyes urged her to confess and repent on the scaffold, she replied "I am no more witch than you are a wizard. If you take my life away, God will give you blood to drink." Years later when Reverend Noyes died of a hemorrhage in the mouth - in fact drinking his own blood - many in Salem remembered Sarah Good's curse. In fact Nathaniel Hawthorne, descendent of the hanging Judge Hathorne of the witch trials, borrowed this incident for the death of Judge Pyncheon in his famous novel, The House of the Seven Gables.
What rights does a rights does an accused person NOT have?
He or she does not have the right to ask for a specific lawyer. If you cannot afford one you get what they give you, and if you deem the counsel you were given "incompetent" you can appeal your case if you were not acquitted. this is just one of the many rights that they don't have, but there are a lot of rights that can be waved.Added:An accused is guaranteed ONLY those rights which are enumerated.Anything else, regardless of WHATEVER it may be, is not guaranteed.Short answer: If it is not enumerated in the Constitution, Statute, or by Court decision, then, ergo, it is not "guaranteed."
How might the events in the 1692 witch-hunts be compared to those of the McCarthy era in the 1950s?
the McCarthy era was the same as the 1392 witch hunt because their was lots of blaming to do and alot of people were accused of doing witchy things and they didnt have evidence to back up their reasonings.
Which colony was the most tolerant of religious diversity?
Massachusetts. The Puritan leaders of Massachusetts were intolerant of those who opposed or did not follow Puritan ways. Non-Puritans, for example, were denied the right to vote. The leaders of Massachusetts dealt with religious dissidents in a number of ways. Some, like Roger Williams or Anne Hutchinson, were banished from the colony. Others, such as Quaker missionaries, were hanged.
At its heart the Scopes Trial was a clash between .?
. . . those who interpreted The Bible literally as "The Historical Truth," and those who believed in the demonstrated "Scientific Method" of evolution.
What happened to those who confessed to witchcraft?
Most likely they would have died, slowly. In that time, if you were accused of been a witch (whom were mostly women). You will be put to death, in one form or another.
What happened in the Salem witch trials?
Off the top of my head... When prominent people in the Salem community started being accused by those vicious little girls they sort of petered out. Wikipeadia has a good entry under "Salem Witch Trials" if you want more detail.
Why do you think the puritans were so harsh of those accused of witchcraft?
The Puritans were very conservative when it came to religion. They viewed witchcraft as the work of the devil.
Why do you think the puritans were so harsh with those accused of witchcraft?
The Puritans were very conservative when it came to religion. They viewed witchcraft as the work of the devil.
What were the types of torture used for those accused of witchcraft?
witches are people who chase scared children for aids.
What will happen to those that confess to witchcraft?
People found guilty of witchcraft, if executed, were most often hanged, by a very large margin.Very few, comparatively, were burnt at the stake, drowned or pressed to death.
How can the Salem witch trials relate to the national history day 2008 theme?
Conflict: Over 150 people, men and women, were accused of being possessed by the devil. 19 people were hanged, 1 was crushed to death, and many more were imprisoned, some of them even died in prison. The accusers and juries were acting out of superstition. Compromise: The compromise is unclear, but this is my best answer. It seemed as though those who did confess to witchcraft were not hanged (usually). Those who didn't confess were (usually) not believed by anyone, and they were hanged or imprisoned. Those who did confess were said to believe God would forgive them. So, the compromise was that if they confessed to a crime they didn't commit, God (and the jury) would spare them. There are other opinions of the compromise, so this may not be the only answer. Research the topic for yourself and you may come up with your own idea. The Witch Trials is my NHD topic this year and this is the idea I came up with.
What happened to accused witches in the Salem witch trials?
There were over 150 people charged in the Salem Witch Trials, but only twenty-eight were convicted. And of those twenty-eight only twenty died. So what happened to those twenty-eight?-Five of the women confessed and were sparred..why?! (i mean they confessed to be with the devil why not kill them? why were they set free?!)-Two of the women escaped-One woman was pregnant and was pardoned for the babe-One..the only man accused in the Salem Witch Trials..was 'pressed' (he was basically squished beneath a bunch of stones until he died)-All the rest of them were hung
What happened to the individuals who pleaded innocent to the charges of witchcraft as opposed to those who pled guilty?
The answer seems to be that those who pleaded innocent were acquitted. Per Answers.com, "Nearly two hundred people were accused of practicing witchcraft in Salem during the summer of 1692. Twenty accused witches were executed, fifteen women and five men." This despite the facts that the accused had no right to legal counsel, and were presumed guilty.
How would the people of a city treat those accused of witchcraft?
They would report such people to the religious authorities who would then try & execute such people.
Who was hung as the result of the Nuremberg war crimes trials?
There were 24 people accused of the crimes and of those, 12 were sentenced to death. Out of those 12, 10 were actually hanged (Two had committed suicide.)
Why are people accused of being witches?
In the case of the Salem Witch Trials, people who were not strict Puritans and those who did not go to church as often as the Puritan community deemed appropriate were considered outcasts, and these were usually the first people to be accused of witchcraft.
