Salem Witchcraft in 1692?

Question

I have quite the liking for this particular event in american history, i'm 14 and i'd like to know more about it, i'm very interested in it and i'd like to know more about it! Thanks in advance for anyone who can answer me! this is an EASY way to get 10 Points!!

Answer 1

You'll find an enormous amount of information on The Internet.

Just Google "The burning times"; you'll be directed to no-end of websites - and not just on the Salem witch trials either.

Answer 2

You know the simple thing to do is to type in the Salem witchcraft trials into  Google or any search engine and the entire story will pop up.... And this way you can read it all until you just get tired of reading........

Answer 3

Back then there were a very few select group of girls who were supposedly possed by the devil. There were very few people that this happened to, but they would get attacked by spirits or ghosts. They would be flipping out and nothing was there. This made everybody believe that the devil was walking the earth. They assumed these girls were possesed. These happenings started spreading more and more and it was happening to more girls.

Then this one girl admitted to being a witch and that they fly on sticks and whatever and she gave away two other girls names. All of these girls were put on trial and were executed. People started worrying and started accusing people of being witches. Now if they gave the court other witches names, their trial would be held off for awhile. And people then were afraid of what would happen if they denied being a witch. There word wouldn't have made any difference on the results, they would be guilty.

So because of the potential trial delay, people gave peoples names that they knew, even though none of these people were witches, just to delay their sentence. So all these people were accused and killed.

Answer 4

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex Counties of colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693. Over 150 people were arrested and imprisoned, with even more accused who were not formally pursued by the authorities. The two courts convicted twenty-nine people of the capital felony of witchcraft. Nineteen of the accused, fourteen women and five men, were hanged. One man who refused to enter a plea was crushed to death under heavy stones in an attempt to force him to do so. At least five more of the accused died in prison.

Despite being generally known as the "Salem" witch trials, the preliminary hearings in 1692 were conducted in a variety of towns across the province: Salem Village, Ipswich, Andover, as well as Salem Town, Massachusetts. The best-known trials were conducted by the Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 in Salem Town. All twenty-six who went to trial before this court were convicted. The four sessions of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1693, held in Salem Town, but also in Ipswich, Boston, and Charlestown, produced only three convictions in the thirty-one witchcraft trials it conducted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch...

this site is a good starting point but i recomend hitting other sites theres tons of books out there to just be careful seperating fact from fiction

Answer 5

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects...

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/sch...

http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcra...

My son used the discoveryeducation link for his history class last year.

Answer 6

I was just in Salem & went to a few of the musems & re-enactments. Kinda a sad time in US history but at least not nearly as bad as the European inquisitions. Based upon the stories of a few bored teenagers (one who later re-canted and asked for the forgivness of the families of those killed). There is also a theory hat the girls might have had Ergot poisoning from contaminated wheat. (causes hallucinations etc).  Thank god it ended soon & was never repeated. I would do some internet research on the topic as well as look at the City of Salem's site (visitor info).  There is a nice monument to those who were killed as well.