"Burn her! Hang her! Kill the witch!", the crowd yelled as young woman was being accused for witchcraft. She was caught in an alley performing strange rituals on a dog. In Massachusetts over twenty five thousand men, woman, and even children were accused of witchcraft. According to, Mitchoff, Kate Housten, author of, "Salem Witch Trials, the trials lasted from around 1600 to about 1700. Although not all guilty most were punished in inhuman ways. Because witchcraft wasn’t legal, anyone accused would
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Imagine eating some bread one day and the next being accused of witchery? That was exactly what occurred in the Salem Witch trials of 1692. When neighbors turned on each other and loyalties were broken in this tragic event. In the Spring of January 1692, a few girls in the village of Salem started to experience strange behavior. Muscle contortions, seizures, and sudden bursts of screaming. After the doctor said that it was a case of bewitchment, the girls immediately started to accuse their neighbors
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Witchcraft accusations may begin as petty conflicts between women, but “During witch hunts, men legitimize violence against the accused women by using rumor and conspiracy, and the women are made credible scapegoats in the process” (Chaudhuri, 2012, p. 1214). Men are the driving force behind transforming petty village conflicts into acts of violence against women through the use of conspiracy and calculated attacks; men also rely on the women’s blind faith in the established gender roles in order
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Jealousy has been around for centuries. Jealousy is a hideous thing that can cause people to do things that some of us would never imagine doing today. Or maybe some of us would, but only to an extent. One of the most known events more than likely known by this was the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The Salem Witch Trials were caused by many other things as well. However, the main causes of the trials were town division, lying girls, and jealousy. As above, the first reason for the Salem Witch
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How does mass hysteria effect so many people at one time? There are many examples of mass hysteria and its affects on schools and different groups of people. Many examples happen in schools and manily to kids. Mass hysteria is a fear that spreads across a large gorup of people. Mass hysteria mainly affects younger people because they are more pliable or likely to make things up and believe the things they hear. Fifty schools were closed due to a mass hysteria out break in Bengladesh. It first started
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The Salem Witch Trails were a time in which people believed in the supernatural. This belief began in Europe during the 14th century. It would eventually spread throughout colonial New England; due to increase fears of outsiders and resentment of fellow townspeople which were fueled by the smallpox epidemic and fears of Native American attacks, as well as a rival with the community of Salem Town. In January of 1692, two girls by the name of Betty Williams and Abigail Williams began to have fits
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During the year of 1692 in Salem four girls became oddly sick. The children had deliriums, fevers, pain, and even spoke in tongues. Even doctors could not explain this strange illness and as a result, blame came. The people of Salem started to blame the strange occurrences as work of witches living in Salem. Paranoia spread the town and soon enough, people blamed their neighbors and at least twenty-four people suspected to have been witches were dead. Some believe the witch trials were caused by
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What triggers people into believing rumors that outbreak through the community? Mass hysteria has an effect in making people believe in what is only presented to them and told. When we cannot find answers for unknown cases, our brains yearn for explanations creating panic, social, and mental dilemmas. Throughout the world dozens of cases exhibiting hysteria have been reported. In most cases panic in the community is highly familiar. The War of the Worlds panicked people about an announcement of the
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The Salem Witch Trials happened at Salem, Boston 1692. The fear in the people had made them suspect others as witches. In the Bible it states that witches were pure evil and that people who were Christians had adapted that witches and demons. . Another thing was revenge and jealousy toward the accused people. The causes of the Salem Witch Trials were revenge, fear, and religion. Revenge is one of the causes of the Salem Witch Trials. For example, all the girls that were at Bridget Bishop’s
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A theory that was elaborated on was cold weather. The afflicted were during a cold weather in Salem. During 16th-18th century, witches are believed to have supernatural powers such as control weather. The document, Malleus Maleficarum, outlined what witches were capable of. “Among the list was the list was the ability to conjure up storms, control lighting and, perhaps most importantly, destroy crops in the field”(Kelly et al). It was easy to accuse anybody of being a witch, because the farmers’
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