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The Salem Witch Trials is not an effin' book! They were a series of trials for witchcraft in 1692 Salem that condemned 19 innocent people.

Ann Rinaldi has written fiction about the witch panic in Salem. Worthwhile books about the trials include:

The Enemy Within by John Demos

In the Devil's Snare by Mary Beth Norton

Witch Hunt by Marc Aronson

A Fever in Salem by Laurie Carlson.

the women in 1666 wore big dresses that stuck out and under neath the cotton and material of the dress was a big metal brace and it was very un compfortable for the ladies

Bridget Bishop was the first person to die in the Salem witch trials. Bridget Bishop was one of nineteen people executed for witchcraft in Salem, Massachussetts, in 1692. Born some time in the 1630s, Bishop had was on her third marriage by the time the witch craze began. Bridget had one daughter, Christian Oliver, by her second husband in 1667, and married Edward Bishop, a lumber worker, in 1685.

Bridget was well-known in her neighborhood. She publicly fought with all of her husbands, dressed flamboyantly (although for Puritans, that just meant she liked to wear big hats and a red bodice with her black dress), and was the mistress not one but two taverns. She developed a reputation for entertaining into the wee hours of the night, playing forbidden games such as shuffle board, and generally being the target of much speculation and gossip. In other words, Bridget Bishop didn't seem to care what society thought of her - and because of that, she became a likely target when the accusations began.

There were over 160 people accused of being involved in witchcraft - 19 were hanged and 1 was pressed to death. Also, there were five accused that died in the Salem Village jail (there may be as many as 13 more people who died in the Salem but the sources don't match, so no one knows), and there was one man who was crushed to death by having large stones pressed on him.

This site tells a lot about the Witch trials, the people who died, and where they lived:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~macsalem/salem_witchcraft.htm

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.

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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.

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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.

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.