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Salem witch trials - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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      Salem Witch Trials - People thought that some people were using witchcraft. 
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      In the 17th century, supernatural activity was part of a normal day. 
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      It was believed that Satan was alive and active on Earth at this time.
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  • n Salem Village in the winter months of 1692, Betty Parris, age 9, and her cousin Abigail Williams, age 11, the daughter and niece, respectively, of Reverend Parris, began to have fits described as "beyond the power of Epileptic Fits or natural disease to effect" by John Hale, minister in nearby Beverly.[26] The girls screamed, threw things about the room, uttered strange sounds, crawled under furniture, and contorted themselves into peculiar positions, according to the eyewitness account of Rev. Deodat Lawson, a former minister in the town. The girls complained of being pinched and pricked with pins. A doctor, historically assumed to be William Griggs, could find no physical evidence of any ailment. Other young women in the village began to exhibit similar behaviors. When Lawson preached in the Salem Village meetinghouse, he was interrupted several times by outbursts of the afflicted.[27]
  • The people of Salem were all engaged in this rivalry.
  • Sarah Osborne rarely attended church meetings. She was accused of witchcraft because the puritans believed that Osborne had her own self-interests in mind following her remarriage to an indentured servant
  • All of these outcast women fit the description of the "usual suspects" for witchcraft accusations, and nobody defended them.
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