A town of foolish men and women put their trust and faith into possibly two of the evilest children on the planet. Sa-lem’s history is not pretty and the trials are the main reason for it. It is well known that it was not witches that caused the trials, but anything is possible. Those who were accused did not have a happy ending. Luckily the trials had an end. The Salem Witch Trials began in the 1692. Many of the girls from the Salem village began to act strange, the symp-toms were peculiar. The girls would throw fits so bad that all the town was enthralled by the by the behavior exhibited by the girls. The girl’s bodies would bend and be contorted in an unusual grotesque manner. Some of the other symptoms that would occur include, the girls losing their hearing, vision, verbal usage and a loss of memory. They would say things like specters would appear and attack them, leaving marks behind (Hansen 1). Dr. William Griggs was the man who had given the afflicted …show more content…
She began to spread the lies and accusations of the witchcraft in the town. Because of her many innocent people died. Abigail’s younger cousin Elizabeth Parris is convinced to help Abby falsely convince the town, of people participating in witch-craft. The entire town goes ballistic, believing that there are witches running wild in the town terrorizing everyone. Soon enough the town calms down and comes to their senses and find out what happened (Salem 34). “Witchcraft, in a general and vague sense, was something very old in English history.” (2) The word witchcraft dates to being used in the Anglo-Saxon times. Apparently, there are stories of men making deals with the Devil, the deals were written out stating the Devil would help the people in life and in death their soul would be his to keep forever. Making deals with the devil, is greatly frowned upon in Salem especially during this era in