Often women accused their enemies or people with whom they did not get along of being witches. Often those enemies were women.
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While the above is true, the Salem Trials differ in the fact that we don't know what caused the girls to make the accusations. We don't know if they did in consciously or were under the influence or a physical or mental ailment. That said, we don't know why so many women were accused.
It must also be said that men were accused in Salem as well.
ans: Because girls didn't want the people to know about what they were doing. so they started blaming others so they wont get in trouble.
Torture was no utilized for getting confessions during the Salem Witch Trials.
It was started by the people who were accused
Salem Witch Trials had to do with a group of girls accusing women for witch craft, while in McCarthyism a man accused people for being communist.
The Salem witchcraft trials were held in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. 140 were accused, 20 were killed.
The accused in Salem were not subjected to European-style witch tests. That includes dunking.
Tituba.
John Proctor was accused and hanged during the Salem Witch Trials.
Countless people.
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Torture was no utilized for getting confessions during the Salem Witch Trials.
yes
It was started by the people who were accused
There were no actual, practicing witches invovled, accused or otherwise existing in Salem during the witch trials.
the person who accused a people
Rebecca Nurse and many others.
It was started by the people who were accused
Salem Witch Trials had to do with a group of girls accusing women for witch craft, while in McCarthyism a man accused people for being communist.