The Salem Witch Trials In The Year 1692

In the year 1692 an incident that resulted to twenty people being executed and even an additional two hundred people being accused of witchcraft which most people know today as The Salem witch trials. These injustices had prevailed in the society and people would be randomly accused and randomly killed because people believed that witchcraft was a punishable crime like other. In the most bizarre events in the American history the Salem trials had entirely become rampant and even shaped the court decisions (Levin,1955). However, in the year 1933 common sense prevailed and most people argued that witchcraft would not be a punishable offense since supernatural forces could not be used as evidence in a court of law. Before the trials ended many

This strange illness consisted of symptoms that include fever aches, odd body movements, and shouting gibberish. At that particulate point the medical examination could have directly proved that it was a bad flu just because of the fever aches and pain. However, these symptoms further progressed and become more unstable that then caused the girls to scream and even contorted their bodies in strange position by crawling under furniture. They were also heard uttering strange sounds and claiming that they were pricked by pins. To examine and find the cause of these strange behaviors a local doctor who went by William Griggs, closely examined the girls and claimed that they had been inflicted by a supernatural witchcraft force (Blumberg, 2007). Griggs diagnosed these girls by being afflicted by the evil hand. In the seventh century the Salem had been known of blaming witchcraft of the evils of the world and even prosecuted those who were thought of conducting these evils. As the mysteries continued the girls blamed three women for afflicting them with these estrange illness and so this the start of the Salem witch

However, no one was bullet proof to these accusations when a famous loyal churchgoer was charged with witchcraft and people began to panic. This is because pinpointing of even innocent people that had no history of witchcraft began to occur. When people needed to eliminate someone from a leadership position they went ahead to ensure that they were falsely accused of witchcraft and even went into jail. The basic assumption was that if Martha Corey a famous churchgoer had been charged and accused of witchcraft then basically anyone else in the Salem community would probably face same charges because she was seen and perceived to be the most religious. As more and more charges were brought before courts and responsible authorities people from Salem and even surrounding areas were brought in for questioning. Many of the accused however were simply unable to defend themselves because these charges were simply biased in nature and it was also very difficult to prove whether an individual was telling the truth or not. It was pathetic that the authorities went ahead to allow fake evidence such as foul gossips and other merely unsupported evidence and assertions. For example, dreams and visions by people believed to decode witchcraft would be used against people and victims and these sets of evidence in a modern day would not build any