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Early Ideas Of Witchcraft In Massachusetts During 1692

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In Massachusetts during 1692 a horrible expiernce had swept throughout the colonies that witches were real, and some of the key concepts that had a major impact to make people think they were real were superstation, economics, politics and there early ideal of gender shaped their era. Throughout the era of witches there had been puritans who were people who had believed in god and do that they thought to be able to see god and his angels you would have to believe in evil apparitions as well. Puritans at the time were one of the main contributing societies of witchcraft in Salem, and it was the belief that Satan was among them and roaming around freely. Next was the other type of contributing factor which was the relationships within and between …show more content…

At a time, Salem Village was a part of the Salem town but then was set apart due to the separation of its economy, class and character Residents of the village were poor farmers who did their part by cultivating crops in the rocky terrain. The town on the other was where the wealthy had lived (so to speak the upper class) and they had been prosperous for the of the trade with London most of people in Salem town were rich merchants. For many years, Salem village, had tried to declare their independence from the town but that was not likely to happen because the town depended on the village for the farmer’s food and their taxes. The Village had also been going to the town mainly because they don’t have their own church (till 1674), but there had also been a parting within the Salem village which was between those lived near the commerce road of the town which had Blacksmiths, carpenters and innkeepers. They had supported and praised the economic changes taking place but the farmers who lived far away from the commerce road believe the worldliness and affluence of Salem town threated there way of life and their Puritan values. One of the families who had denounced the economic changes was the Putmans who were a strong influence against the witchcraft accusations. Tensions had then become worst when Salem villiage had

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As Whitney mentioned, the witch hunts occurred in the 17th century were due to the fears of women becoming “economically and psychological” independent, and threatening the male control of property and social order. Those women were viewed as “discontent” meaning the refusal of accepting their predetermined social status (Whitney 85). In contrast, men who had high authority and social status like the Putmans and Parris could purposely manipulate women and instigated the public resentment to falsely accuse, and cruelly eliminate their enemies such as Rebecca and other accused witches. Certainly, the girls and women in the Putman and Parris’s families who made the false accusations of witches and witchcraft were wielded by

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