At the time, not very much. Now we know how easy it is to kill innocent people.
The people of Salem learned that a healthy amount of skeptisim when something based in their religion is not a bad thing.
1. Be VERY SUSPICIOUS when people start making wild accusations.
2. Children WILL lie about things if they think an adult is angry at them.
3. Occam's Razor; The simplest explanations are generally the best ones.
Even the magistrates at the Salem Witch Trials repented later on, but of course, by then it was too late.
That we do not know the cause of the affliction and that if you find a book about the trials in the fiction section, its a novel, not a real historical account.
that people shouldn't be trusted when false suspicion is occurring.
That skeptisim can be a good thing.
Salem,MA in the 1600s
No, the Quakers were accused of Witchcraft in New England long before the Salem Witch Trials. They left New England for Pennsylvania.
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The Salem witchcraft trials were held in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. 140 were accused, 20 were killed.
None. Burning was not the punishment for witchcraft in colonial New England. Anyone convicted of witchcraft was hanged.
Bengt Ankarloo has written: 'The period of the witch trials' -- subject(s): History, Trials (Witchcraft), Witchcraft
1692
Massachusetts
John Proctor says this ironic statement about witchcraft trials to his wife, Elizabeth, in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible. Witchcraft was known as "black mischief" as in black magic, but he felt it was the witchhunting trials that were a stain on their community.
Jenny MacBain has written: 'The Salem witch trials' -- subject- s -: History, Juvenile literature, Trials - Witchcraft -, Witchcraft
"Sundry acts of witchcraft on the bodies of *names*"
1692
1692
Yes
Gerhard Schormann has written: 'Hexenprozesse in Deutschland' -- subject(s): Trials (Witchcraft) 'Hexenprozesse in Nordwestdeutschland' -- subject(s): History, Trials (Witchcraft)
1692-1693
No one of any significance in the trials was a Beard, but a man by that name wrote an early book on the trials.