Essay On Salem Witch Trials

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There are tales that we remember since we were kids. Those tales that we were told about witches and demons who would haunt us in our sleep. Now that we are older we may not believe, but in the year where it all began 1692, all those stories really seemed to be true. Over two-hundred people were accused of witchcraft and twenty (most likely innocent) people were killed during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692; this becoming one of America's most compelling and darkest mysteries in history. So, what really caused one of the darkest time in American history? The answer to that is quite simple - children (and a doctor who suggested the girls were bewitched). Adults nowadays have been smarter when it comes to believing children and their imagination, but unfortunately that was not the case in 1692. It is hard to believe that the only possible explanation for what the children were going through was witchcraft, but this was not unheard of in Salem at the time. “For starters, there was the Puritan Legal Code that was created in 1647 and established a hierarchy of crimes that consisted

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