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Salem Witch Trials

The year is 1692 the place is Salem Massachusetts home of the famous Salem Witch trials. Life is stressful for everyone who lives here, worried about whether or not they will be called and tried for being a witch. But there was also an outbreak of the small pox which made people go or seem delusional for there was no cure yet. Prisons were full of over 100 people, men and women, accused of being a witch. For it seems that there names were called out in the middle of the night by plagued young girls who were in some sort of pain, caused by these witches. So they all stayed in jail waiting for the trial, trying to prove their innocence, for if they were convicted of being a witch they would die.

So below is a diary from a young girl named Jannine Smith. A young girl who lived in Salem during the Witch Trials, and who was locked up by her father for fear she was a witch.

July 15, 1692
This is the first entry into my diary; I am hoping that doing so will help me stay sane. My name is Jannine Smith; I am seventeen years old living in Salem, Massachusetts. Let me describe myself a bit, I am five six with blonde hair and green eyes. I am told I look like everyone else but I think my blonde hair makes me stand out a bit. I live my life as any other Puritan child does, I go to church, help cook, clean, sew, etc. I guess you may say your basic chores. We do not have any toys to play with or games, but we do have a Bible and it has helped me learn how to read. I do not leave my home either as my father has decided to lock me up in the family attic. He says that I am a witch and that if I leave my home I will have to go to trial. A trail for being a witch where he fears I would ruin our family's name, so he locks me in. I think he loves me after all he still gives me food to eat and has not thrown me out to the dogs, so he has to love me right? If he ever found this book I have no idea what he would do, he would think this is a book of spells I know he would. So I...