Salem witch trails
The Salem Witch Trials all began on January 20, 1692, with nine-year-old Elizabeth “Betty” Parris and eleven-year-old Abigail Williams, daughter and niece of the village reverend Samuel Parris, beginning to exhibit strange behavior, such as blasphemous screaming, convulsive seizures, trance-like states and mysterious spells. Within a short period of time, several other Salem girls began to illustrate similar behavior; physicians resolved that the girls were under the control of Satan. Reverend Parris conducted prayer services and public fasting in hopes of relieving the evil forces that tormented them. In an effort to expose the “enchantress”, one man baked a “witch cake” made with rye bran and the urine of the ill girls. This counter-magic was meant to reveal the identities of the “witched” to the ailing girls. Pressured to identify the cause of their misfortune, the girls named three women, including Tituba, Samuel Parris’ slave, as witches. On February 29, warrants were dispatched for the arrests of Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne. Although Osborne and Good sustained guiltlessness, Tituba confessed to seeing Lucifer, who appeared to her “sometimes like a hog and sometimes like a great dog.” What’s
more, Tituba certified that there was a collaboration of witches at work in Salem. Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Sarah Wildes, Sarah Good and Elizabeth Howe were then tried for witchcraft and condemned. Then on July 19, Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, Sarah Good, and Sarah Wildes were executed. From August 2 through August 6 George Jacobs, Sr., Martha Corey, George Burroughs, John and Elizabeth Proctor, and John Willard were tried for witchcraft and condemned. On August 19, George Jacobs, Sr., Martha Carrier, George Burroughs, John Proctor, and John Willard were all hanged on Gallows Hill.
Some topics in this essay:
Superior Court,
Oyer Terminer,
Reverend Parris,
Village Tituba,
Witch Trials,
Samuel Parris,
Governor Phips,
Corwin Margaret,
Bridget Bishop,
Dorcas Hoar,
martha corey,
mary easty,
george burroughs,
court oyer terminer,
court oyer,
governor phips,
bridget bishop,
sarah wildes,
oyer terminer,
susannah martin,
rebecca nurse,
george jacobs sr,
rebecca nurse susannah,
nurse susannah martin,
jacobs sr martha,
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