Cause And Effect Of The Salem Witch Trials

Since the trials ended the colony began to suffer a lot of misfortunes like droughts, crop failures, smallpox outbreaks, and Native American attacks so they began to think that God was punishing them. But people had been too determined to catch witches and to destroy them that they neglected daily chores, farming, roads, business matters, and other things (Brooks,

Rebecca,Salem Witch Trials: Historical sites and locations). For example the Blanchard sisters, people thought that the Blanchard sisters minds' were also disordered and others thought that they were possessed by Satan. When the Blanchard sisters became adults the three girls went to their pastor and told him that they faked the possessed act just to get attention(Aftermath of the

After that was the day of prayer and fasting and it was on January 15th,1697 and was known as The Day of Official Humiliation, and on that same day judge Samuel Sewall attended the prayer services at Boston's South Church and asked Reverend Samuel to read his apology publicly(Brooks, Rebecca,Salem Witch Trials: Historical sites and locations). Finally, by the mid 1700s the era of the Salem Witch Trials was fading away and young women were now given more freedom and was encouraged to socialize because it reduced boredom, frustration, and anxiety(Aftermath of the Salem Trials). But the accused to be witches who was only sent to jail had to stay there because they couldn't pay their fees so the accused also had their