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The Tituba And The Salem Witch Trials

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The Salem witch trials occurred in Massachusetts in the year of 1962. 20 people were executed and over 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft (the Devil’s magic). It all started when Reverend Samuel Parris’ niece and daughter started throwing, what were described as, “fits”. The fits consisted of the girls throwing things, moving into strange positions, saying very odd things, and screaming. When the girls were examined and observed by the village doctor, the doctor blamed the supernatural. A short time later, another girl started experiencing similar episodes. Eventually the girls were pressured into blaming someone for what was happening to them. The girls pointed the fingers at three people; among the three was Tituba, the Parris’ …show more content…

In June of 1962, the special Court of Oyer and Terminer, which was made of magistrates and jurors, sat in Salem to hear the cases of witchcraft. The first person to be tried was a woman named Bridget Bishop. Bridget lived in Salem, when the court tried her she was found guilty and was hanged on June 10. After Bishop was hanged, three other hanging days were set up. In total five men and thirteen women from all walks of life were hanged shortly after Bridget Bishop. Soon after these three hanging days, the Court was disbanded by Governor William Phillips. After the original court was disbanded, another court formed. The original court allowed the use of spectral evidence. This was a big deal because many people in the village would claim that the accused would use their invisible “shapes or specters” to torture them which obviously could not be proven true. The new court didn’t allow this type of evidence though and so it was then that many of the people accused and awaiting a trial were released along with the people who were to be executed. The Salem witch trials were over due to the new court not allowing that type of evidence. In the years following the witch trials, compensation and apologies were offered and given to the families of the

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Witchcraft was considered a capital offense. The first to be accused of witchcraft was Tituba and Sarah Good. Tituba was the servant of Reverend Parris. The Salem accusations began in Reverend Parris’ kitchen.

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Families were breaking apart and failing as a unit. In addition, property was confiscated from those who were convicted of witchcraft (“Five Myths of the Salem Witch Trials”). With this being said, whether you made it out of jail or not, your life was starting over again at ground zero. Most people lost everything they had, despite the fact that the trials were over. The government even went to lengths to make it up to the people of Salem who were affected by the

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and I was about to be next to die a cruel cold death. The Salem Witch Trials took place in Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. During the Trials 20 people were put to death and more than 200 accused for practicing witchcraft. Among those accused were Abigail Williams and Anna Putnam who just experienced fits or uncontrollable

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In January 1692 a group of young girls started to behave really strange. The first ones of the group were the Reverend’s daughter Elizabeth Parris and his niece Abigail Williams. They experienced symptoms like suffering “fits”, unexplained screaming, trance-like states, barking like a dog, uttering peculiar sounds, anxiety and disappearing into the woods in the middle of the night and dance a “black magic” dance. Soon after that five other girls started developing the same symptoms. Since none of them got better a doctor was called after a while to take a look at them.

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On August 5, 1692, they were tried, convicted, and sentenced for the crime of witchcraft. Fourteen days later they were hung by the neck on Gallows

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Most all people who accused others for being witches were young girls. Many people were put to death because of these people accusing them. After the trials were done they were very deeply regretting their decisions when they found the women that were accusing were lying and found guilty. On February 29, the girls blamed three women for cursing them: Tituba, a slave; Sarah Good, a homeless woman; and Sarah Osborne, an elderly woman. Not until 1957, 250 years later, did Massachusetts apologize for what they the Witch Trials did.

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When the doctor had came and examined the girls there was so explanation for their behavior and stated it was a supernatural cause. Towns people had noticed more of the same symptoms happening to other people. Symptoms of witchcraft could include suffering fits, acting as cats and dogs, screaming, walking on hands and knees, odd noises (Cullender 30). The first women who was accused of witchcraft and was taken in for questioning was Tituba. When Tituba was questioned she had confessed that she was approached by satan along with two other women in the city.

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Salem, Massachusetts, USA and occurred between February 1692 and May 1693. Over 150 people were arrested and imprisoned and even more accused; but not pursued by the authorities. 29 were convicted of witchcraft but only 19 were hanged. The best known trials were in the Court of Oyer and Terminer.

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Which led Parris to call the local physician, William Griggs, and diagnosed the girls of bewitchment. Other young girls in the community began to exhibit similar symptoms, including Ann Putnam Jr., Mercy Lewis, Elizabeth Hubbard, Mary Walcott and Mary Warren. Pressured to explain what or who had caused their behavior, the girls named three Village women as witches. One named was Tituba, the Rev. Parris ' slave, who had enthralled many local girls with fortune-telling in her master 's kitchen. Another named as a witch was Sarah Good, an unpopular woman who had reportedly muttered threats against her neighbors; the third was Sarah Osborne, who had allowed a man to live with her for some months before they were married.

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The girls were having their futures told with charms from a slave named Tituba. In this foretelling of the future, they played a game in which you crack an egg into a glass and whatever shape it became would determine your future husband. Once the girls cracked the egg into a glass, the first shape to appear was a coffin which terrified them, for it symbolized death. Soon after this “game” was played, the girls began falling into fits and or seizures from an unknown illness during January of 1692. During these fits the girls had many symptoms aside from seizures such as; lethargy, temporary paralysis, distraction, bite-marks, barking, uncontrollable cursing and their eyes rolling back into their heads.

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