Who started the Salem witch hunt?

Answer 1

As is true with many historic events, it is difficult to assign the blame for the start of the Salem Witch Trials to a single person. Abigail Williams, Betty Parris and the other girls who began the accusations must take some of the blame. Samuel Parris bears some responsiblity because he played it up as bewitchment to the masses. The other ministers in Essex County are in a similar boat for not denouncing Parris as out for vengence on the town that had tormented him. Dr. Griggs could have stopped the whole mess in its tracks if he had just diagnosised the girls with a physical ailment, even a made up one, instead of witchcraft.

Answer 2

HOW IT STARTEDA bunch of girls got together with a slave named Tituba and the girls performed a ceremony naked in front of a fire. The master of the slave and uncle of one of the girls (Abigail) They faked

illness and some sort of trance to get out of getting in trouble. The city council was told of this. Once the news leaked out everybody blamed the people they hated and said they were a witch. They would put on an act and pretend to be taken over and in trance during the trial of the person and got the person burned as a witch.

EDIT:

First, that is only a theory. We do not know concretly how it started. The girls using magic and then lying has no evidence to support it. Otehr theories include ergot, a fungus that caused hallucinations when consumed, in the wheat, tensions between Salem Town and Salem Village, and encephalitis.

Second: Salem witches were hanged, not burned.

Answer 3

No one person could have started the Salem witch trials. Betty Parris and Abigail Williams are partly responsible for beginning accusations and teh rest of teh girls for continuing them. It was Reverand Parris' fault for playing up the supposed affliction. It was Dr. Griggs fault for diagnosising witchcraft without looking for alternatives.

Answer 4

Governer Phipps after his wife was accused

Answer 5

Betty and Abigail

Answer 6

In salem, Massachusets