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... I am falsely accused
This dialogue was based on the examination of Sarah Good and sums up how unjustly and falsely accused the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were treated. ... Most of these executions were performed in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. ...
During the witchcraft trials, hundreds of arrests were made, and some were even put to death on Gallow’s Hill (Karlsen 145). In 1698, the villagers of Salem won the right to establish their own Church. ...
January of 1692 is when the mass hysteria of the Salem witch trials first began. ... As Dorcas Hoar said, "I will speak the truth as long as I live" (Salem Home Page). ... Shortly after this, other Salem girls began to demonstrate this same behavior. (Salem Home Page). ...
Once doctors pronounced the girls possessed by Satan the whole village of Salem engrossed themselves in the situation of the girl’s strange behaviors. ... It seems to be that these women were originally accused because they were outcasts of some sort in the village of Salem. ... This marked the beginning of a stream of hundreds of false accusations of witchcraft throughout the village of Salem, Massachusetts. ... It is possible that the girls were victims of ergot poisoning from the bread they ate; however, if this were true, most local communities, including Salem Town, would have reported instances of juvenile outbreaks. ... Parris was enraged when he found out about the cake and then shortly there after the afflicted girls named Tituba as a witch. ...
Tituba was the first witch to confess in Salem; she likely confessed to avoid further punishment. ... She also wove a lively tale of an active community of witches in Salem. ... The deception of the witches of Salem was beginning.
Magistrates John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin examined Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne in the meeting house in Salem Village. ... That was the case for Mary Easty (Salem Home Page). ... There were led by God, ran inquisitions, and created the "witch-hunt" of Salem. The Salem witch trials is just one example of types of hunts that have gone on in American history. The McCarthy trials and Watergate are other forms of hunts in the political spectrum (American Fanaticism). ... These magistrates based their judgments on intangible evidence, such as forced confessions, so called "witchmarks", and reactions of the afflicted girls (Salem Home Page). ... As Bridget Bishop said, "I am no witch. ... I know nothing of it" (Salem Home Page). ... Sarah Good was one of the first three women and had fit the prevailing stereotype of the malefic witch quite well. Good habit of scolding and cursing neighbors who were unresponsive to her requests for charity generated a wealth of testimony at her trials. ... Four-year old Dorcas Good (Sarah’s only child) was arrested on March 23, gave a confession and in doing so implicated her mother as a witch. ... Many townspeople signed petitions opposing the trials. In a letter written by Governor Phips dated the twelfth of October 1692, he tells of his findings of all the proceeding happening in the town of Salem. ... "…If it be possible no more innocent blood be shed…I am clear of this sin" (Salem Home Page). Just as everyone was sick of the trials, especially were the people who were on trial. ... This time no one was convicted (Salem Home Page).
The Salem Witch Trials took place during the seventeenth century in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Approximate Word count = 2792
Approximate Pages = 11.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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