How many people that used witchcraft were put to death at Salem?

Answer 1

Tituba - Reverend Parris' West Indian slave who entertained the girls in Parris' kitchen with stories of her native Caribbean. Tituba and the girls 'in the kitchen are generally credited with having started the hysteria. Tituba was among the first accused of witchcraft. She confessed and was imprisoned. Reverend Parris - minister of Salem Village. Tituba was his slave, and it was in his kitchen where the girls gathered. William Good - husband of Sarah. He testifies against her describing her as "an enemy to all that is good". She denounces him as a wizard. Dorcas Good - four year old daughter of Sarah. She also testifies against her mother claiming that her mother has three "familiars" - two yellow birds and one black. Sarah Osborne - along with Sarah Good and Tituba the first to be accused of witchcraft. During her trail, Sarah Good accuses Osborne of being a witch. Old and infirm to begin with, Osborne dies while imprisoned. Giles Corey - accused of witchcraft, he was pressed to death while refusing to enter a plea. By refusing to enter a plea he preserved his estate for his sons Judge Hathorne - one of the presiding judges of the witchcraft trials and an ancestor of Salem's famous author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Sarah Good was the daughter of a wealthy Wenham innkeeper, but her life had been a long downhill slide since her father's suicide from drowning. Her mother had quickly remarried in order to block the children's inheritance rights. Sarah married a landless man who hired himself out as a laborer. But even with a chronic labor shortage in the colony, individuals hesitated hiring her husband because that would mean taking Sarah into the household, and she was considered shrewish, idle, and slovenly. 

With matted grey hair and a leathered, lined face, Sarah Good looked seventy years old even though she was still of child bearing age. (In fact she was pregnant at the time of her arrest.) With her clay pipe, Sarah Good even looked the part of a witch. She didn't attend church, and recently she had been begging door-to-door and making a general nuisance of herself. 

Along with Tituba and Sarah Osburne, Sarah Good was among the first three women named as witches. All three were arrested on February 29th, 1692. A strong woman, Sarah nearly overpowered the sheriff who came to arrest her. During the initial questioning of the three women, Good accused Sarah Osburne of being a witch, and Tituba confessed to witchcraft. Tituba was released while Good and Osburne were sent to jail. Osburne, who was already ill, died in prison. Good's newborn child also died in prison. Good was joined in prison by her four year old daughter, Dorcas - even though Dorcas had testified against her mother. Dorcas was to remain mentally impaired for the rest of her life as a result of her imprisonment. Even Sarah Good's husband testified against her. 

On June 29th, along with five other women, Sarah Good was tried and convicted of witchcraft. She was hanged on Gallows hill on July l9th. Sarah Good remained defiant to the end. When Reverend Noyes urged her to confess and repent on the scaffold, she replied "I am no more witch than you are a wizard. If you take my life away, God will give you blood to drink." Years later when Reverend Noyes died of a hemorrhage in the mouth - in fact drinking his own blood - many in Salem remembered Sarah Good's curse. In fact Nathaniel Hawthorne, descendent of the hanging Judge Hathorne of the witch trials, borrowed this incident for the death of Judge Pyncheon in his famous novel, The House of the Seven Gables.

Answer 2

look up the history of Salem "wikipedia" on Google.

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Apart from specific, famous cases like the Salem witch trials, nobody knows the exact number of the victims. However, the best estimates made by historians today range from 50,000 to 200,000 people.

Answer 3

By saying 'confessed' you make it sound as if witchcraft is some horrible unspeakable thing.

There are many different kinds of witchcraft. Within white magic, there are many religions who practice witchcraft. Many of those religions are part of the pagan community. But there is some black magic, those numbers of practitioners are lower, and give the rest of the practitioners of white magic a bad name.

There is no number of people who 'confessed' to witchcraft. Many people practice it, and I've never seen any poll that relates to numbers of practitioners.

Scratch that. Whoever posted that is an idiot. Witchcraft was a punishable crime in New England during the 17th and 18th centuries. Although I do not know the exact answer, I do know that over 100 people were tried and hanged for witchcraft.

You can find more information here:

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/

Answer 4

people in the olden days that were accused of being a witch were often old poor women. This was because they were powerless and an easy target. They also were alone because women lived longer than men .

• most Irish women were accused and killed by people of there town.

Answer 5

About 20 people were put to death after being accused of involvement in witchcraft.

Answer 6

There were many people that were hung for doing witchcraft. Witchcraft is not a good thing to do.

Answer 7

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