Salem Witch Trials

Unfortunately, no. Not many people kept diaries back then and the chances of paper material not kept safe surviving centuries in the freezing-to-rainy and cold-to-sweltering and humid-to-crisp-and back to freezing weather of seaside Massachusetts are very slim.

In specific - nothing. In genera there are certain similarities between the state of near panic that made otherwise rational men throw accusations around every which way, and to sentence people on very vague evidence.

The Court of Oyer and Terminer

"Goody" was short for "Goodwife", a form of address for women at the time in puritan society

During the era the trials occurred during, sporting was used to mean fun. In reference to the trials, it was used by the opponents of the trials to express the possiblity that bored girls were lying about afflictions to have fun.

The Salem had a toruble with witch craft by a disease because the Puritans thought that the victims were acting like the devil

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The long and short of it is: if you were in a dispute over a land border or plot of land and the owner of the land is imprisoned and/or executed, you automatically win according to the unwritten code of Puritan daily life.

Absolutely. As long as there are people who can be considered "different" by the larger culture, there are scapegoates for people to project their fears and prejudices on. We saw a modern version of the Salem witchhunt in the McCarthy communist scare of the fifties, and we see it now with people being branded "terrorist" because of their heritage or religious belief (specifically muslim).

The web address of the Salem Witch Museum is: http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com

Burning is the European form of this sport. American victims were hanged.

John Hathorne and Jonathon Corwin

He went back to Boston and in which he wrote a thesis on the perspectives of witchcraft. He continued to be a judge until his death in 1672 at the age of 67. He convicted over 57 people, in which 38 were hanged.

Pardon my outrageuos laughter. Only 19 people were convicted and executed during the Salem witch panic, 20 if you count Giles Corey being pressed to death for refusing to make a plea in court. It took just under a year for all the trials and the governor's proclamation that ended the trials and pardoned all the remaining accused to happen.

It's thought that a fugus could have made he "afflicetd" act the way they did

Not by very much. Salem didn't spread much farther than Boston. The single lasting change to colonial system was the fact that the Puritans lost control of Massachusetts.

Both were caused by a hysteria that made people accuse others of being something feared in that day. In Salem, it was witches. In the senate it was communists.

The clergy of Essex County and Boston put all their support behind the trials and sometimes were the only force that kept the trials going.

Witch trials had been going on during the previous centuries before the trials. There were many in Europe and the British Isles. There had been two in Connecticutt and three in Boston before Salem.

Burroughs had been a minster in Salem, but had left and gone to Wells, Maine. He was brought back by authorities and imprisoned. He was found guilty. At his execution on August 19th, 1692, he recited the Lord's Prayer perfectly, something a witch supposedly couldn't do. The crowd wanted to release him but Cotton Mather talked them out of it. He died along with John Proctor, George Jacobs, John Willard and Martha Carrier.

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None. Minnesota wasn't settled by people who believed that witches were a threat and government was more separated so legal trials for witches wouldn't happen.

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19 people were hanged in the Salem Witch Trials and 1 (an old man) was killed by "pressing" because he refused a trial.

The witch trials were an event. An event does not eat.