The religious zealots. <----- This answer is not true. The real truth is that in 1688, Samuel Parris was invited to preach at the church in Salem, Massachusettes, and to bring his family, his wife, Elizabeth, his six-year-old daughter Betty, niece Abagail Williams, and his Indian slave Tituba. The village girls were caught fortune-telling with Tituba, and to save themselves, blamed older women and men of being in league with the devil, and forcing them to do witchcraft. The accusers were all young girls. 25 people died between June 10th and October 1st, 1692.
The kind of people who were accused of being witches were normal people. These people were found suspicious by the townspeople for a variety of reasons. The accused might not have attended church or town meetings regularly, been a social pariah, or even just a doctor. They could also have just had a difference of opinion about the whole witch trials controversy...
the fist people to be accused during the Salem witch trials were Tibuta, Sarah good, Sarah osborne.
The accused in Salem spanned the entire range of the social spectrum and there are really to many names to list.
Sarah Goode, Sarah Osbourne and Tituba.
It was started by the people who were accused
2 in 1692 all 26 who actually went to trial (lots more were accused) were convicted.
Torture was no utilized for getting confessions during the Salem Witch Trials.
They really aren't. The Salem Witch Trials tried regular people accused of witchcraft and convicted in Puritan society. The Rosenburg Trials tried two people who were trying to spy on the US during a time of diplomatic hostilities.
The Salem witchcraft trials were held in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. 140 were accused, 20 were killed.
John Proctor was accused and hanged during the Salem Witch Trials.
It is estimated that around 200 people were accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, with 20 individuals being executed. This means that about 90% of those accused were innocent of the crimes they were charged with.
There were no actual, practicing witches invovled, accused or otherwise existing in Salem during the witch trials.
yes
It was started by the people who were accused
the person who accused a people
It was started by the people who were accused
Countless people.
2 in 1692 all 26 who actually went to trial (lots more were accused) were convicted.
They really aren't. The Salem Witch Trials tried regular people accused of witchcraft and convicted in Puritan society. The Rosenburg Trials tried two people who were trying to spy on the US during a time of diplomatic hostilities.
Torture was no utilized for getting confessions during the Salem Witch Trials.
The Salem witchcraft trials were held in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. 140 were accused, 20 were killed.