How Did The Salem Witch Trials Affect Society

The Salem Witch Trials began around February 1692 and lasted until May 1693. During this time, it was really bad for the townspeople of Salem. There was an assumption that people were working with witchcraft, and being unsure who those people were, they were very insecure. They would blame anyone who was accused of this, and then they would execute anyone who seemed a little suspicious to the citizens of Salem. About twenty people were tried and executed. The paranoia would be so bad, that if someone was mad at their neighbor, they could easily tell the townspeople that their neighbor was a witch just because that person didn't like them. That is how bad it was in this time. The people would be so terrified, that even the

The most infamous cases of agitation in Salem, were conducted in 1962 by the court of Terminer and Oyer. These trials have been used in popular literature and political declamation as a dangerous tale about all of the dangers, like false accusations, religious prejudice, and isolationism. These witch trials took place in Europe in the early modern period, however, it was a colonial America that made a much wider phenomenon of the trials which was not an uncommon thing at all. Some historians believed that the United States’ history would be affected by these lasting results of the witch

There were over twenty people who were tried and executed under the inference of studying witchcraft. Twenty people got executed and fourteen of them were women. Five of these women were imprisoned, including two pure infants. There were over 200 people in total who were accused of practicing this so-called “witchcraft”. This was all an immense rage that started in Europe that lasted from the 14th century all the way to the end of the 17th century and was unfortunately brought back up in the late 19th century. On February 1692, A woman named Betty Parris who was at the age of 9, and her cousin Abigail Williams, who wasn’t much older than her was the 11 year old daughter of a man named Reverend Samuel Parris. She began to have fits that were described as "beyond the power of Epileptic Fits or natural disease to affect" . This quote was by John Hale, the minister of the nearby town of