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The Salem Witchcraft Trials

The Salem Witchcraft Trials. Salem Village, Massachusetts 1692-1693. Events Enhancing the Witchcraft Hysteria. Puritan religious beliefs: predestination, the devil Small pox epidemic Nearby Tribal (Native American) warfare. The Beginning….

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The Salem Witchcraft Trials

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  1. The Salem Witchcraft Trials Salem Village, Massachusetts 1692-1693

  2. Events Enhancing the Witchcraft Hysteria • Puritan religious beliefs: predestination, the devil • Small pox epidemic • Nearby Tribal (Native American) warfare

  3. The Beginning… • 1689 Samuel Parris and family move to Salem Village; Village minister • February 1692 Betty Parris (daughter) ill with strange symptoms • Ann Putnam, Mercy Lewis, Mary Walcott (friends) reveal odd behavior as well • Tituba concocts cake made of urine and rye as counter magic • Late February Tituba, Sara Good, and Sara Osborne accused of witchcraft

  4. Symptoms of the Victims • Creating grotesque poses • Frozen poses • Biting and pinching sensations • Claimed to see witches flying in air • Rotten food • Animal birth deformities • Violent Pains • Speak in gibberish

  5. The Arrest Warrant for the arrest of Elizabeth Proctor and Sarah Cloyce

  6. The Dead • 19 Convicted witches executed (hanged) • 4 (accounted for) died in prison; 13 more possible • 1 pressed to death • 100-200 others arrested and imprisoned • 2 dogs killed as suspected accomplices

  7. The End Autumn 1692 doubts developed Writings of Increase Mather and Samuel Willard influenced people Order courts to exclude spectral evidence=guilt from “clear and convincing evidence” Public apologies Sir William Phips 1st Governor of Massachusetts replaced by William Stoughton who wanted to “clear the land” of witches

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