Being afflicted by Witchcraft means to be being harmed by a malevolent spell someone cast against you, your land, livestock, or something similar.
Being accused of Witchcraft means that someone has either told you to your face, or has told someone else that you are a Witch and are using magic, likely for a negative purpose, despite whether or not you actually were or weren't.
During the Witch Hysteria of Europe, people whose crops did not grow well were often said to be afflicted by an evil witchcraft spell. The owner of those crops then would often accuse someone they didn't like of Witchcraft and working magic to make his/her crops fail.
Basically when you're afflicted you're the victim of a spell for example and when you're accused someone thinks you're a witch.
Danforth is a judge in the novel The Crucible, which depicts the Salem witch trials. He says that the difference between witchcraft and ordinary crime is that a person accused of witchcraft cannot defend themselves by calling witnesses.
You have to understand the terminology of the era. The common belief was that the devil was summoned and would then proceed to possess the practcioners. The affliction would refer to such an event. The accusation would be the courts ruling regarding the alleged afflicted.
Guilty means that a person admits to committing the crime they were accused of. Not guilty means that a person denies committing the crime and the prosecution must prove their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in court.
To be arrested is to be taken into custody by the police. To be the accused is to stand trial before a judge.
Between June and September, in 1692, in Salem Mass, 19 people were hung on the charge of Witchcraft. They were accused of Witchcraft. They were not the ones that did the accusing. Giles Corey was pressed death by stones for not pleading guilty to the charge of Witchcraft. Other people died while imprisoned.
The difference between the two were that the pilgrims practiced religious freedom with British beliefs. On the contrary, the Wampanoag were Pagans (aka practiced witchcraft).
Andover wants nothing to do with witchcraft and the trials, while Salem is pretty much being controlled by witchcraft and the trials are held there. p.s, i had trouble with that one tooo
Many were accused of witchcraft due to their iniquitous behavior and tension in the villages. These accusations led to the Salem witch trials and executions of twenty people between February 1692 and May 1693.
There is no connection between witchcraft and communism. Witchcraft is a spiritual path. Communism is a political structure attaining to a classless, socialist structure with no religion.
An accomplice is a co-accused with other persons in commission of a crime. While one of the accused persons turned to a prosecution witness on the condition of giving him pardon, he is an approver.
The main evidence presented against the accused witches in Salem village was the raving testimony of young girls. The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692, and May 1693. Twenty people, mostly women, were executed.
142 people were legally accused of witchcraft during the Salem Hysteria.This count does not include people who were rumored by neighbors or relatives of being involved with witchcraft. Only a handful of these people were executed, 16 I think, a few with the money or influence to do so escaped town, charges were dropped against some and the remainder served time in prison but were released.