The Salem Witchcraft Trials are a series of tests and trials conducted by Puritan Colonists to discover and punish suspected witches. One example of a witch trial was forcing them into a body of water. The Puritans believed that if the women floated that they were witches, and they would have to be killed. Unfortunately, not very many people learned how to swim back then, so the women would usually drown.
"Sundry acts of witchcraft on the bodies of *names*"
The Salem Witchcraft Trials (plural) took place in Salem, Massachusetts, in what is now, the USA.
There never was witchcraft in Salem. It was all superstition that lead to the killings of innocent people.
Salem,MA in the 1600s
The people of Salem were afraid of witchcraft.
how wouldnt it affect the view of salem residents toward witchcraft?
how wouldnt it affect the view of salem residents toward witchcraft?
Tituba, the slave who was accused of witchcraft in Salem Massachussettes, was from Barbados.
This questions stems from an assumption that there was actual witchcraft during the Salem panic. No witchcraft was practiced in Salem in the seventeenth century. It is very difficult for something that didn't exist to change.
Salem
The Salem Witch Trials took place in Salem Massachusettes, in what is now the USA.
1692