Salem Witch Trials

There wasn't a mass exodus out of the area, but it is likely that at least a few people moved because they didn't agree with or were afraid of the trials. Especially with the border to New Hampshire so close and the small area affected by the trials. But moving in those days was more difficult than now, so it is difficult to be certain.

I'm not counting the people known to have fled because they were accused, because fleeing has a different connotation to moving, namely moving lacks the urgency of fleeing. But to include people who fled, yes, people did leave Salem because of the trials.

The USA lost the trial.

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In US history, the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts believed in the supernatural powers of witches, and that they were demonically or Satanically inspired, and therefore contrary to Christianity. The witch trials of Salem, MA occurred in 1692 and 1693.

In 1692:

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The only person in any accounts that was tortured was Roger Toothaker and we have no concrete proof that he actually was.

That was never recorded because the law doesn't care about dogs names. Especially when the law thinks they're familiars and not dogs at all.

Trier witch trials happened in 1585.

They were subject to public ridicule, torched then burned and hanged. Not in any particular order.

There were witch trials all over Europe long before Salem was stolen colonized. The burnings of which you hear happened only in Scotland and continental Europe. In England and Ireland, they went with the more 'humane' method of hanging, as they had already had their fun the people had suffered enough.

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The Salem were not even the first in America. That title goes to a the trial of Alyse Young of Windsor, Connecticutt. Margaret Jones, of Boston, was the first tried in Massachusetts.

I'm assuming that you're asking about Giles Corey, who was pressed to death when he refused to plead in court.

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they are during much different time periods. Mccarthyism took place during the 1940s, and the Salem witch trials took place in the 1640's.

I believe that Giles Corey in Salem Massachusetts was the only person tortured to death.

To ways that people (mostly women) were tested was:

1. A lake would be blest, the the person who was accused would have there hands and ankles tied together then lowered into the lake, if the person floated and lived he/she would be a witch then killed, but if he/she drowned she would be dead then proved that he/she wasn't a witch.

2. The person accused would have to carry a peace of hot coal around the town two times, when finished if the persons hands were burnt then they would be let go, but if they where fine they would kill you.

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During the Salem Trials, the accused were not given the benefit of a fair test.

The Touch Test, the afflicted's testimony and the Witch's Teat were the only evidence or tests employed.

The Touch Test, in which the accused would touch the bewitched while in a fit and if the fit ended the agent to cause it had returned to the accused witch by touch, could be rigged because the afflicted could choose to recover if they were faking, which is the most supported theory.

The afflicted could have easily lied.

And the Witch's Teat, a blemish that would not bleed or cause pain is pricked, was ALWAYS fake. The examiners used dull pins.

The witches of Salem were people who were believed to be using witchcraft against the village people. These people were medicine women/men, outsiders such as Quakers (people who didn't believe in using violence to solve problems) or people disliked by certain people of authority in the village or town.

Early-modern Germany confuses me a bit. Anything after 1100 was developed by the Catholic Church (see inquesitions) or the Russian/Slovic areas (see bolshevicks). Some tortures during WWII were based on American research into euthanasia.

No, because it really wasn't their fault. They didn't help the outcome, but they were not the cause.

The Salem Witch Trials was in Salem, Massachusetts I believe where people were being accused of being witches and having the ability to perform magic. They sentenced these people to death and often would tie their feet to a brick and thought that if they floated they were capable of witchcraft. Now, this was a very stupid idea because everyone was human and they all drowned, so the townsfolk knew that they weren't capable of witchcraft, but if you drown, obviously you're dead. Pretty messed up times.

In 1693.

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Increase Mather challenged the Trials, saying that they weren't right. His son, also a clergyman, threw himself into supporting the trials.

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