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A 4 page research paper that offers a brief overview of the facts surrounding the Salem witch trials of 1692. The writer describes how the hysteria started and progressed and how false evidence was made to seem real by the teenage girls who caused this travesty of justice. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of Salem, Massachusetts (Linder). These innocent victims of a form of mass hysteria were taken to Gallows Hill, on a barren slope outside of the village, where they were executed
by hanging. One victim, a man over eighty, was crushed to death under heavy stones for failing to submit to the travesty of a trial on witchcraft changes (Linder). Dozens
of other victims spent months in jail--five of them dying while incarcerated-- before the hysteria that started the witchcraft trials of Salem ended (Linder). Scholars still investigate the circumstances
that caused this travesty of justice. It seems to have been caused by an unfortunate combination of circumstances, such as "an ongoing frontier war, economic conditions, congregational strife (among the
villagers), teenage boredom and personal jealousies," which results in spiraling accusations (Linder). The series of events leading up to the witch trails began in 1688 when John Putnam, one of
the most influential elders of the village, invited Samuel Parris to be a minister in the Village church (Linder). A year later, Parris moved to Salem Village with his wife
Elizabeth, six-year-old daughter Betty, his niece Abigail Williams and his Indian slave Tituba, whom Parris had acquired while in Barbados (Linder). When Salem became the new home of the Parris
family, it village was in the midst of social change. A mercantile elite class was beginning to develop and prominent individuals were becoming less willing to assume positions of leadership
(Linder). Two families, the Putnams and the Porters, were competing for control of the village and its pulpit (Linder). During February of 1692, Betty Parris became ill. She "dashed
about, dove under furniture, contorted n pain and complained of fever" (Linder). The cause of her symptoms may have been "stress, asthma, guilt, child abuse, epilepsy or delusional psychosis" (Linder).
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