The salem witch trials occurred between 1692 and 1693. They took place in the colonial Salem in Massachusetts. In total there was one hundred and forty-one people put in prison, nineteen were hanged and one person was even crushed to death. These trials were performed to find out what individuals in the colony were practicing witchcraft. Of the nineteen who were hanged fourteen were women and five were men.
Some of the individuals that were in jail died before serving their time. When the bewitchings initially started in Salem they were only targeting younger girls but as they expanded, older women were included to the group. Hearings of the salem witch trials were initially passed on to different towns but the main trial was organized and …show more content…
Both of the young girls were suffering from random fits and nightmares. The doctor soon diagnosed the young girls as victims of witchcraft. These girls then accused the salve that worked in their home who was known by Tituba as the witch. Tituba was an indian from the Caribbean but was originally from an Arawak village in South America. There she was taken as a child, transported to Barbados as a captive, and then sold into slavery. One of the major reason the colonists believed she was a witch was because she prepared a “witch cake”. The cake was a mixture of rye and Betty’s urine, cooked and then fed to a dog. She practiced that because she thought the dog would later reveal the individual that was be-witching …show more content…
He additionally created the Court of Oyer and Terminer, which meant to hear and to determine, because many people were being falsely accused of witch craft. The Court of Oyer and Terminer did not look into the various types of evidenced that was looked at before, therefore there was no more convictions. The termination of the trials were also vanished because many people did not approve of the innumerable innocent people that were being executed. The trials caused many to escape their own homes and crops only to avoid any accusations. That caused an immensely outbreak in Salem town because they had no profits from crops. The captivity of the innocent people also left them moneyless and homeless. The politics in Salem had a drastic change as well in the end. Samuel Parris was replaced by Joseph Green because the Salem villagers did not forgive Parris for the cruel actions he had preformed in the trials. In the end the families of the accused did not forgive the accusers and their families forming separation in the