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Salem Witch Trials
Early in 1692, the witch hunt started in Salem, Massachusetts. During
this time there were many stresses in the Massachusetts Bay Colony among
Salem Villages, who had a strong belief in the devil. A town not too far from
Salem had had a recent smallpox outbreak, and created fear and suspicion for
the Salem Villages. Nine-year old Elizabeth Parris and eleven years old
Abigail Williams started having fits, strange behaviors and would scream
with anger. A doctor looked at the girls and decided that
the only explanation was spells caused by witchcraft. The girls then
accused Tituba who was a family slave, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne of
telling them tales of omens, voodoo, and witchcraft.
Cotton Mather had just published a book about witchcraft and
the symptoms of the people under the spells. Since the girls fits were much
like those described in Mather's book, the family accepted of the doctor's
conclusion that the girls were under a spell. Leading to the
Trials against Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne as being the
one's responsible to what was occurring to the girls.
On March 1, 1692 John Hawthorne and Jonathan Corwin began of examining the three
accused women.
They asked each one the same questions: Are you a witch? How do
you explain what is happening to these girls? The Three maintained her
innocence, but eventually Tituba confessed to being a witch and claimed that
she, Good, and Osborne had flown through the air on broom sticks and even...
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