Why Did Puritans Occur In Salem

To understand why and how these issues arose in Salem, first look to the history of the Puritans. The Puritans believed that the Anglican Church needed to be purified of the Catholic ideologies. With monarchs of their time disinterested in the idea of reform, many Puritans became discouraged and thought the colonies would give them a better chance to reform the church. John Winthrop along with a few other Puritans in the New World decided to create City on a Hill to set an example of good behavior and religious purity. The Puritans believed that God had made a special covenant with them so they could live according to scripture, reforming the Anglican Church, and set a good example for those who were still living in England. The Puritans lived with religion and politics intertwined.

There was to be no dancing of any sort ever. The young girls defiance of this rule lead to the mass murder of large numbers of people. People of the community were looked down upon for not being in church every Sunday. There was an exception to this rule because many respected John Proctor, although he was not in church every Sunday(Wiggins, 2012) . Ideas of witchcraft and voodoo were very common. The young girls dancing in the forest, both forbidden, made people worry of witchcraft almost instantaneously(Wiggins, 2012). Young girls were allowed dolls, but they were to be faceless with little or no clothing. It was seen as suspicious if the adult women of the community still had dolls of their own. Mary Warren made Elizabeth Proctor a doll as a gift, which was later seen as some kind of voodoo doll(Wiggins, 2012). The citizens of the community were to live as the Bible taught them, and nothing