Salem Witch Trials

they stack blocks of wood on u and continue to add more until u confess.

That only occurred in a single case: Giles Corey's. The reason some people confessed was the mercy showed to confessors. Ie, they were granted forgiveness and imprisoned for however long instead of excuted. Those who did not confess felt it better to die for telling the truth than live because they lied.

The Salem trials only lasted a little more than one year, with 20 executions. The scale of your question suggests you might be confusing this with the Spanish Inquisition.

They did it because their black maid started showing them 'magic,' and they decided they wanted attention. They admitted what they did wrong, but only after dozens of innocent women had been hung because they were 'witches.'

The Salem witch trials was caused by multiple things including King Philip's War, a smallpox epidemic and tensions between the two factions in Massachusetts, the emerging and thriving Yankees and the orginal Puritans that were dying out.

The condition of Salem in The Crucible, Act 4 was very tense. In the discussion of Parris and the cows, you can see that the town is really disrupted.

the Salem Witch trials were held in various locations dotted all over the USA from 1692-1693. The Salem Witch trials is the shortest Witch trial to be recorded in history.

They believed that the trials were caused by the fact that there were witches and those witches had to be condemned. They thought that the witches were a sign that Massachusetts wasn't religious enough anymore.

Witch trials tell us a lot about human psychology, and about the foolishness and evil that results from ignorance and superstition.

no comments

There were several unnotable ministers in the early part of the Salem Village Church. The most famous, and first ordained, minister of the church was Samuel Parris. He is often associated with the Salem Witch Trials.

The Witch Trials Memorial was dedicated by Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel in August 1992 as part of the Salem Witch Trials TerCentenary. The design was selected in a international competition that received 246 entries. The winning design by Maggie Smith and James Cutler was inspired by the Vietnam Memorial.

The Memorial consists of 20 granite benches cantilevered from a low stone wall surrounding an area adjoining the Old Burying Point. The benches are inscribed with the name of the accused and the means and date of execution.

None. In Colonial America, witchcraft was a felony punishable by death by hanging. However, in Europe witchcraft was considered heresy and punishable by burning at the stake. So instead they tortured, locked them in filthy jails, crushed one under heavy stones and hung Nineteen people and as many as thirteen people may have died in prison.

No one involved with the trials was a character, they were all real people living in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The main people responsible would include, but are not limited to:

Reverand Parris

Cotton Mather

Dr. William Griggs

Ann Putnam jr

Ann Putnam sr

John Hathorne

The people weren't convinced by anyone. The trials in Salem stopped when the Governor ordered them to stop and pardoned all the remaining accused. Witch hunts in general were stopped when more people were convinced by science that witches weren't real.

because her husband thomas has been accused of taking land from the deceases and Abigail feels she has unfinished business with the putnams

St. Joan of Arc was one.

Often women accused their enemies or people with whom they did not get along of being witches. Often those enemies were women.

EDIT:

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.

The American town famous for the Witch Trials (called the Salem Witch Trials) is Salem, Massachusetts.

The Puritans of Massachusetts believed witchcraft to be a felony. And the English punishment for felony was death by hanging. On the Continent of Europe, witchcraft was heresy and punished with death by burning.

They happened in Salem.

The trials officially ended because once the queen was accused she demanded that the trials be stopped

EDIT:

The Queen was not accused. The wife of the Massachusetts governor was accused and the governor demanded a stop to the Trials and wrote to London for the power to pardon all the imprisoned.

Witches were regarded as supernatural agents of evil.

My friend, this has homework assignment written all over it.

Governor William Phips, who first authorized the trials, was later influenced by writings of Increase Mather (father of Cotton Mather) and Samuel Willard questioning the fairness of the trials, brought the trials to an end in September 1692 when it became clear that the trials were injust and specious.

This did not end acrimony and accusations. The governor's wife was accused of witchcraft at one point, by then all such charges were being ignored or thrown out. It was likely the wife was accused because the governor had already stopped the trials and had released the remaining who were jailed or condemned.

It was resolved by the governor in 2001 after much lobbying on the part of a school teacher. All were declared innocent and free three hundred years later.