1692 in Salem village, Massachusetts sometime in February a young girl name Betty Parris became strangely ill. She dashed about, dove under furniture, contorted in pain, and complained of fever.They know she had a disease and could not explain and they could not explain the affliction suffered by other in Salem later in the year. But how ever there was another theory to explain the girl's symptoms.
Cotton Mather had published a popular book called Memorable Providences its describing the suspected witchcraft of an Irish washerwoman in Boston, And Betty Parris' behavior in some ways mirrored that of the afflicted person described in Mather’s book.
In Salem in 1692 it was easy to believe with an indian war going on not far from them that the devil was close at hand.
Sudden violent death occupied minds.The talk of witchcraft increased with other girls Betty played with, including 11 year old Ann Putnam,17 year old Mercy Lewis, and Mary Walcott, began to have similar behavior as Betty Parris. A doctor called to examine the girls,Suggested that the girls problems might have supernatural influences.People started to focus one of of the victims slaves tituba who has been known to tell the girls of omens, voodoo, and witchcraft from her native folklore.the number of girls afflicted continued to grow, The girls were Ann Putnam, Elizabeth Hubbard, Susannah Sheldon, and Mary Warren.
According to peter hoffer a historian said that the girls turned themselves from a circle of friends into a gang of juvenile delinquents.in a village where everone believed that the divil was real,close at hand, and acted in the real world, the suspected affliction of the girls became an obsession.Sometime after February 29, When arrest warrants were issued against Tituba and two other women, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams named their afflictors and the witchhunt began. The consistency of the two girls' accusations suggests strongly that the girls worked out their stories together. Soon Ann Putnam and Mercy Lewis were also reporting seeing "witches flying through the winter mist.the first three to be accused of witchcraft were Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborn.
Tituba was an obvious choice. Good was a beggar and social misfit who lived wherever someone would house her,And osborn was old and had not attended church for over a year.The putnams brought their complaints against the three women to Jonathan Corwin and john hathorne who scheduled examinations with the witche for march 1, 1692.When hundreds showed up, The examinations were moved to the meeting house. At the examinations, The girls described attacks by the specters of the three women, and fell into their by then perfected pattern of contortions when in the presence of one of the suspects.
Other villagers came forward to offer stories of cheese and butter mysteriously gone bad or animals born with deformities after visits by one of the suspects.the matter would not have ended if it wasn't for tituba.Tituba claimed that she was approached by a tall man from Boston obviously Satan who sometimes appeared as a dog or a hog and who asked her to sign in his book and to do his work. Yes, Tituba declared, she was a witch, and moreover she and four other witches, including Good and Osborn, had flown through the air on their poles. She had tried to run to Reverend Parris for counsel, but the devil had blocked her path.
all the girls went to testify.Nineteen accused witches were hanged on gallows hill in 1692, june 10 bridget bishop, july 19, rebecca nurse, Sarah Good, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, Sarah Wildes, August 19 George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, John Willard, George Jacobs, Sr. John Proctor,September 22 Martha Corey,Mary Eastey,Ann Pudeator,Alice Parker,Mary Parker,Wilmott Redd,Margaret Scott.Samuel Wardwell One accused witch or wizard was pressed to death on September 19 when he failed to plead guilty or not guilty.The Salem Witch Trials ended in may 1693.After the girls had confessed to what they did.
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Cotton Mather had published a popular book called Memorable Providences its describing the suspected witchcraft of an Irish washerwoman in Boston, And Betty Parris' behavior in some ways mirrored that of the afflicted person described in Mather’s book.
In Salem in 1692 it was easy to believe with an indian war going on not far from them that the devil was close at hand.
Sudden violent death occupied minds.The talk of witchcraft increased with other girls Betty played with, including 11 year old Ann Putnam,17 year old Mercy Lewis, and Mary Walcott, began to have similar behavior as Betty Parris. A doctor called to examine the girls,Suggested that the girls problems might have supernatural influences.People started to focus one of of the victims slaves tituba who has been known to tell the girls of omens, voodoo, and witchcraft from her native folklore.the number of girls afflicted continued to grow, The girls were Ann Putnam, Elizabeth Hubbard, Susannah Sheldon, and Mary Warren.
According to peter hoffer a historian said that the girls turned themselves from a circle of friends into a gang of juvenile delinquents.in a village where everone believed that the divil was real,close at hand, and acted in the real world, the suspected affliction of the girls became an obsession.Sometime after February 29, When arrest warrants were issued against Tituba and two other women, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams named their afflictors and the witchhunt began. The consistency of the two girls' accusations suggests strongly that the girls worked out their stories together. Soon Ann Putnam and Mercy Lewis were also reporting seeing "witches flying through the winter mist.the first three to be accused of witchcraft were Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborn.
Tituba was an obvious choice. Good was a beggar and social misfit who lived wherever someone would house her,And osborn was old and had not attended church for over a year.The putnams brought their complaints against the three women to Jonathan Corwin and john hathorne who scheduled examinations with the witche for march 1, 1692.When hundreds showed up, The examinations were moved to the meeting house. At the examinations, The girls described attacks by the specters of the three women, and fell into their by then perfected pattern of contortions when in the presence of one of the suspects.
Other villagers came forward to offer stories of cheese and butter mysteriously gone bad or animals born with deformities after visits by one of the suspects.the matter would not have ended if it wasn't for tituba.Tituba claimed that she was approached by a tall man from Boston obviously Satan who sometimes appeared as a dog or a hog and who asked her to sign in his book and to do his work. Yes, Tituba declared, she was a witch, and moreover she and four other witches, including Good and Osborn, had flown through the air on their poles. She had tried to run to Reverend Parris for counsel, but the devil had blocked her path.
all the girls went to testify.Nineteen accused witches were hanged on gallows hill in 1692, june 10 bridget bishop, july 19, rebecca nurse, Sarah Good, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, Sarah Wildes, August 19 George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, John Willard, George Jacobs, Sr. John Proctor,September 22 Martha Corey,Mary Eastey,Ann Pudeator,Alice Parker,Mary Parker,Wilmott Redd,Margaret Scott.Samuel Wardwell One accused witch or wizard was pressed to death on September 19 when he failed to plead guilty or not guilty.The Salem Witch Trials ended in may 1693.After the girls had confessed to what they did.
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