When two girls, nine-year-old Elizabeth Parris and eleven-year-old Abigail Williams began to behave peculiarly and the people in their town did no know what was wrong, they quickly claimed it to be witchcraft. When the girls were questioned, they named three women, and claimed that they were the ones afflicting them. One of the women accused was Tituba, a slave from Barbados who always told the girls tales and entertained them.

The event that followed was even stra

The Salem Witch Trials only ended when Williams Phips, governor of Salem, dissolved the Special Court of Oyer and Terminer (that was responsible for the Witchcraft Cases) and replaced it with a New Superior Court of Judicature. He made sure that in this court, no spectral evidence was allowed, and when the remaining witchcraft cases were tried, nobody was convicted this time. There are two stories to why Governor Phips behaved this way: the first one states that after 20 people had already been killed, the governor’s wife was convicted. In the second one, a man named Thomas Brattle wrote a letter opposing the trials, causing a great impact on the governor.

Either way, the nonsense was gladly stopped. I believe that an event such as this one could never occur in our present society. It is true that rumors spread very easily, and people often accuse each other of things that they are innocent

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