Salem Witch Trials

Salem village change its name to Danver for the main reason of the town splitting in half. And they wanted to put a end to the theocracy in there town so therefor they broke away from salem town and made Danver :)

No. To hear some wiccans speak of it, this was where evil Christians burned innocent witches to death. Some will grant that they were not really witches, but will then use this as an example of how evil Christians are for burning helpless women.

What really happened?

No witches were burned at Salem. As it happens, 19 Christians were hung, another 4 Christians died in prison, and one Christian was pressed to death.

Why? Well, the Christians had been falsely accused of witchcraft by government judges. The only Church Authority there was a Reverend Hale, who while initially friendly to rooting out any witchcraft that might exist, is well known now as the chief opponent of the trials.

The Christians hung were hung because they loved God, and would rather die than admit to a falsehood. Some weaker Christians - justly scared of the government's power - confessed to lies, in order to save their own lives.

And that is the whole of it. The government was oppressing Christians, and 19 of these Christians died for their beliefs.

Were there any witches involved at all? Well, as it happens...

There was the slave woman, Tituba. Kind of the original source of the hysteria. She was a believer in magic and incantations - in short, a "witch", at least to the extent there can be such things. When confronted, she made a quick - and one would presume false - conversion to Christianity, jettisoning her "wiccan" beliefs at the drop of a hat.

So a historical incident where 19 Christians chose death rather than betray their God, and one witch chose to renounce her beliefs at the threat of a lashing, has now been turned around to be some kind of noble martyrdom of witches!

Although there where many witch trials troughout history, perhaps the most famous one took place in Salem, Massachusets.

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Other witch trials took place in Connecticutt, England, Scotland, Germany and France.

I have heard that Tituba was the first one Corect me if I'm rong please if this is a question your answering anyone like on a graded assignment don't answer it unless you agree with me I'm just a 12 year old :) .........

Tituba, Sarha Osborne and Sarh Good were first accused. Bridget Bishop was the first to be tried and hanged.

a reaction of traditionally minded folk to a newer, more commercial, more secular society.

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On the European Continent, and most Catholic places, witchcraft's highest offense was heresy and the penalty for heresey was burning. In England and its colonies, protestant primarily, witchcraft's highest offense was a felony and the penalty for a felony was hanging.

It may be incorrect order of a couple letters and an idiom that unfortunately works for that incorrect order on your part, but I have never heard of the Salem Witch Trail. Is it a route through Salem with particularly disagreeable drivers? I do know of some Salem Witch Trials where a total of twenty-four documented people died or were executed. Perhaps you were interested in that?

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During the Salem Witch Trials in Salem Massachusetts in 1692, 19 were hanged, 1 was pressed to death and as many as 13 died in prison.

At the time, not very much. Now we know how easy it is to kill innocent people.

The people of Salem learned that a healthy amount of skeptisim when something based in their religion is not a bad thing.

most of the people were hung. There was one man however crushed to death with stones because he refused to confess to something he didnt do so his last words were more weight which crushed his lungs and killed him. 0fede1fa-922b-458f-a1b8-241ad95ce60f

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Puritans believed that witches were the servants or sexual assitants to the devil. They thought that women who did not live with a man were at the greatest risk for being seduced by the devil. They linked witchcraft with the devil and hell. Read The Crucible

They are not. Paradox is defined as self-contradictory or absurd. It may seem absurd now that we know witches don't really exist, but back then, they believed in witches, so it was a real threat. It's like the kid who thinks there's a monster in the closet. It seems absurd to their parents, but they believe there is one.

Some people see contradiction in the trial process itself. In some cases, the accused was tested to see whether he or she was innocent. They would be bound and thrown into a body of water. If they floated, it was the work of the Devil and if they sank - and drowned - they were innocent.

Basically, by killing them.

One test they used to determine wether someone was a witch or not was to tie up the accused person to a chair, and throw them into a body of water. If the person was a witch, they would free themselves and escape death. If not (which was invariably the case), they would drown.

Most tests were like this; if they're a witch, they'll survive this for sure death sentence; if not, they're not a witch and they'll die.

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There was no way to prove an accused witch's innocence in Salem. Witch tests like those detailed above were considered barbaric and the evidence of witchcraft and nonexistance of such were used to decide by the judges to decide on a verdict.

The Salem Witch Trials were held in Salem, Massachusetts.

It could have been prevented if the one who knew of the groups activities had told the truth despite the threats to accuse his/her family if she had told about them. Some say it was Sussana English who knew though they arent sure

the Salem Witch trails took place in 1692 and the first amendment was adopted December 15, 1791 so they could not be violating the first amendment.

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If the amendment had existed, it would not have been violated. The victims were arrested on evidence the government declared viable, they were given a fair civil trial and convicted on a charge that was legal in Puritan Massachusetts.

The trials were in Salem, essex county, Massachusetts.

Girls in Salem, Massachusetts began having fits that can be compare to epilepsy. The Puritans of the day immediately thought witchcraft had to be the cause. The girls who were thought to be bewitched were asked to name the witches tormenting them. Those were the first accusations of the trials.

The Salem witch trials happened.

Yes, but not what we would call evidence. It was assumed it ws evidence.

The reason Bridget Bishop was the only one tried on June 2nd was because they had found what they thought were witches tools in her home and she was the only one the found anything for. That made it hard because the debate about whether or not to use spectral evidence as evidence.

There were NINETEEN (19) hanged in the Trials. If you are referring to those of the convicted and hanged that were male, of which there was five, they are:

John Proctor

John Willard

Geogre Burroughs

George Jacobs sr.

Samuel Wardwell

The 14 women hanged are:

Bridget Bishop

Sarah Goode

Rebbecca Nurse

Sarah Wildes

Elizabeth Howe

Sussanah Martin

Martha Carrier

Mary Easty

Martha Corey

Ann Pudeator

Mary Parker

Alice Parker

Margaret Scott

Wilmott Redd

There are more laws regarding evidence and the quality of evidence has gone up. And, of course, what is considered evidence has changed.

Salem had been thrown off-kilter in 1692. Puritan control of Massachusetts Bay was waning so the social structure based on strict religious homogeneity could no longer be trusted to maintain order as more and more people prioritizing economic success over religious devotion. The Puritan religious and social elite could not be certain of their continued social dominance, leading them to be incredibly reactionary and paranoid in order to preserve whatever control they had over the community. Salem's status as a port had declined as other cities like Boston grew in prominence. Massachusetts Bay lacked a secure government in early 1692 following the Glorious Revolution in England and the short-lived Dominion of New England. Colonial envoys had not yet returned from England with a new charter when the trials began, meaning Massachusetts's essentially did not have a basis for government. The divide between the two halves of Salem, Salem Town and Salem Village, was still contentious. Despite having its own meetinghouse, the Village church was still connected to and superseded by the Town church. The two halves were demographic opposite with the Village being agricultural and poor and the Town industrial and more affluent. The persistent fear of attacks by and war with the Native Americans on the colonial border had Essex County on edge. A number of participants in the trials had been directly affected by the Indian Wars of preceding years, something that can be seen in the descriptions of Salem witchcraft, and those direction connection to violence convinced the townsfolk that the same divine disfavor that had lead to the wars on the border had come to Salem. With social anxieties and without a functioning code of law, Salem was susceptible to internal conflict, especially of a religious nature, and had no firm colonial law to keep their legal process in check.