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Witchcraft Hysteria

• In Salem, Massachusetts
• in 1692

By Colin Pickford
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What Began the Hysteria

• The dancing of a group of local girls in a manner
  most befitting to that of witchcraft.

• Like Dancing Naked in the Woods

(To this tune Perhaps)

• The Making of Potions

• And the Drinking (or ingesting) of charms

• And other weird things

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The People Were Concerned...

• They Thought
• Spells had been cast on the people of the town
• Friends and neighbors had been lured into the
  devils service.
• They feared the devil was all around them.

• Really
• It was just a bunch of girls dancing in the woods
  for their own purposes and not that of the devil.
• They continued it for fear of their own
  punishment.

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It Was No Joking Matter Though.

• 19 people were killed from June to September in
  the year 1692.
• Brought to Gallows Hill to be hanged.
• Including John Proctor, the married man Abigail
  Williams wanted to marry.
• Ironically, she drank a charm to get rid of John
  Proctors wife, who ended up surviving the whole
  incident.
• 150 more accused of this phantom crime.

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Under it AllWhat Caused It?

• A Combination of Things
• Jealousy
• Teenage boredom
• Congregational strife
• Economic conditions

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Jealousy

• Abigail Williams desire to marry John Proctor
• She was willing to let innocent people die in
  order to get rid of Goody Proctor

lt Abigail Williams from the Movie The Crucible
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Teenage Boredom

• Abigail and a number of other girls looking for
  something to do.
• Turning to testing out peoples belief in
  witchcraft.

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Events Cascading...

• As time went on and the girls continued to
  display symptoms of witchcraft affliction
• People looked for the scapegoat.
• Tituba

• Tituba was most easily accepted as the one to
  blame because of her stories from her homeland,
  Barbados.
• The stories which talked of voodoo and witchcraft
  and her making a urine cake all combined to set
  her as the source.

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• As the months of this witch scare went on
• More and more people were accused.
• People who were accused could redeem themselves
  if they confessed and singled out the other Devil
  conspirators of the town.
• The Scare spread and spread, and as more were
  accused, more confessed and brought accusations
  upon the heads of even more innocent people
• The Devil was thought to be all over and dealing
  with it in the only way they knew how, the
  executions took place.
• One such was John Proctors, who refused to lie
  about being a witch in a confession because a lie
  was a sin.
• So either way he was...

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• The Devil may not have had involvement in the
  witchcraft hysteria which gripped Salem, but what
  the courts, of the time, did was truly...

In the end, it was revealed to only be a paranoid
society looking for evil which they could reach
out in touch to prove that evil and the devil
existed and if it did so did God. The people of
Salem never thought that the most sensible and
logical reasoning behind this was what was
actually causing it all.
It seems the policy around which Salem society
rotated was...
A system plagued with flaws
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Information Contained Within From

• http//www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/s
  alem/SAL_CRU.HTM