Salem Witch Trials

there is one located in Massachusetts and one in Oregon ^(OuO)^

the accusers would strip the man or woman and observe their body, looking for any unusual mole or freckle. This could be enough to make you a witch. Also, they would strip the man or woman, tie them up, and throw them in a body of water. If you sank, you weren't a witch, if you floated you were a witch. Either way, you were doomed.

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Great explanation. It would be perfect if the question was about European witch hunts and witch tests.

During the Salem Witch Trials, the convicted "witches" were hanged.

Not very well. Conditions in prison were never very good and, of course, the public had mostly turned against them, seeing as they were going to be tried for harming people.

In the end of the 17th century over 150 citizens were accused, for witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, arrested and imprisoned. In the following trials that took place in various places 29 persons were convicted and 19 were hanged. One of the places that the trials took place was Salem town and the whole issue became history under the name of "The Salem Witch Trials"
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Giles Corey, who was around eighty when he was subjected to pressing under stones for refusing to enter a plea, which back in the day was a form of contempt of court.

There would not have been a reward in Puritan-controlled Massachusetts.

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Honestly? Nobody knows, nobody cares. Not true, you must care or you would not have asked. Here is a link for Miley's web site.

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It was called "Dunking" or "trial by water"

No witches were ever found and the poor souls who were executed this way all supposedly made their way to their accusers idea of Heaven.

In Salem, those accused of witchcraft were given two options. One option was to submit to a trial, which consisted of tying the accused to a board and dunking the person in a "pure'' pond while the deacon slowly recited the Lord's Prayer three times. If the accused survived the dunking, the purity of the accused's soul was vindicated and he or she was set free; if the accused did not survive, guilt and sentence were simultaneously announced. No one recalled any acquittals as a result of this process.

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The August 1894 Trial of the Thirty involved 30 alleged anarchists in Paris, France. All but three were acquitted of the crime of criminal association.

She is a main character from the very famous play The Crucible.

She is the main instigator and orchestrator of the historic "Witch Hunts" in Salem, Mass.

It was apparently a hard job. In the first fifteen years Salem Village had a church, they had had three ministers before Parris showed up in 1688. None of the previous had left on good terms or with all their money. That's not a good thing. There wasn't a real sense of community in Salem Village because of the separation between homes in the farming community, so the people had a habit of not getting along and turning to the reverend to help them. He either was a bad mediator or the Salem Villagers didn't want to make peace. He did some relatively stupid things, like asking for title to his rectory (which was owned by the town, like the church) and buying gold candlesticks for the church. Such actions were frowned upon. There were some issues about paying Parris and giving him his firewood.

Summary: The Salemites were a difficult bunch to deal with and Parris was sort of naive and bad with people.

Witch trials did occur in America, most famously the Salem witch trials in 1692; however, the scale and frequency of witch hunts in colonial America were much less severe than in Europe. Several factors contributed to this, including the lack of a centralized authority to enforce widespread witch hunts, the influence of Enlightenment thinking that questioned superstition, and the eventual legal reforms that emerged to protect individual rights. Additionally, the social and religious context in America often emphasized community over persecution, leading to fewer executions.

Dorothy Good (actual name Dorcas Good) was the daughter of Sarah Goode, one of those convicted as a witch in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Dorcas, although only 4 years old at the time, was interrogated and "corroborated" the charges against her mother, who was a beggar. Sarah was later hanged, and Dorcas spent 9 months in jail, the youngest of those convicted in the trials.

At the time, both religious laws and the belief in supernatural influences were common, and the jurisprudence of the day was often wildly inconsistent and influenced by the personal agendas of ministers and politicians.

Very... normal. A person was accused, they were arrested and they were tried in a civil court. Only the crime, using witchcraft to hurt someone, is different from modern court preceedings.

Ann Putnam was accused of witchcraft primarily due to her involvement in the Salem witch trials, where social tensions and personal vendettas fueled accusations against various individuals. She was one of the young girls in Salem who claimed to be afflicted by witchcraft, which led to hysteria and mass accusations. Additionally, her family had longstanding grievances with some of the accused, making her motivations suspect. Ultimately, her accusations contributed to the broader climate of fear and paranoia during this tumultuous period.