The Salem Witch Trials were not debunking the fact that people were witches, but only proving that they were innocent. All of the torture methods used to get one to confess were absurd. They threw people off cliffs, tried to drown them, and other things of this nature. If they lived, then they were a witch. But if they died, then they were innocent. There was never any real proof that anyone was guilty. Also, the “witch marks” that they said proved someone was a witch could have showed up on anyone. It could just be a mole or a bump or something like that. They also tried to see if someone was a witch by the pricking the witch mark to see if it bled. Of course, if someone gets stabbed they are going to bleed. That’s just a fact of life. If they didn’t bleed

2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

Puritans based their entire life on their religion and what they believed God wanted them to do. They tried to live by God’s word. They even left their home country to go to another where they could worship God properly without other distractions. The witch trials were very un-Puritanistic. They were supposed to be following God and His commandments. The commandments are as follows:

, then there’s something wrong with them.

They wanted people to confess to being a witch, so they could be turned back to God and be set free. However, all the people that claimed they were innocent were hanged. This made entirely no sense because the more upright Christians were being killed for crimes they never committed. The people who kept to their good name were the ones hanged, and they were the ones who wouldn’t confess just to save themselves. They knew that their religion stated that God damns all liars and they didn’t want to live with that sin on their minds.

else,” (Glossary of Terms). This would never hold up in a court today, and it shouldn’t have held up then, since they were trying to follow God’s laws, and God would never kill anyone who hadn't sinned.

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