Salem Witchcraft ( Grade:98)
“There is more to be said then hath been for the clearing up of difficulties about the matter of witchcraft” (Sutler 23). The Salem witchcraft trials were one of the last outbreaks of witchcraft hysteria, certainly the largest in the new world, occurred from 1692-1693. 141 people were arrested as suspects and 20 were hung or pressed to death. This was a morbid fact about the founding of the first colonies and the beginning of America. But it happened and the damage was done, thus we cannot try to ignore it and we cannot try to glamorize the subject. We can only present facts and draw our own conclusions. One often states that if he or she was alive at the time then things would have been handled differently, but these are the ones that speak out of order and are the same ones that are oblivious to the facts and the harsh reality of the events that occurred. When a community looks only for evidence of guilt and ignores or suppresses all contradictory evidence, the results are a witch-hunt. And a witch-hunt was developing in Salem as the community felt itself so beset by evil that it was no longer capable of perceiving the good. Although numerous witch craft accusations had occurred in New England prior to 1692 several factors m
“Were there no witches at all in Massachusetts in 1692? According to modern law there were none, none at least among the condemned” (Hansen 108). By the time the witch-hunt was over, Ann Putnam had accused 62 people. In coming years she would have a difficult life. Both her parents died, leaving her to raise her nine brothers and sisters on her own. But she did something one of the other circle girls would do- publicly acknowledge her role in the trials. In 1706-she stoed before the church and the pastor read her apology. Hawthorne: ‘Who do you employ then to do it?’ Hawthorne: ‘What creature do you employ?’ “ ‘Hawthorne: What evil spirit have you familiarity with?’
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