Salem Witch Trials
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- The Setting: Salem, 1690
- Who were the Puritans?
- Humph...Idle hands do the Devil's work!
- What Can We Learn from the Salem Witch Trials?
- A lot of people in the Massachusetts Bay were scared of being attacked by witches, ghosts, and the Native Americans.
- Crushed To Death
- The Puritans are strict Christians they cam to America for peace. They work hard, pray a lot and are follow very strict rules.
- Who Is a Suspect?
- Some of the people in Massachusetts Bay were hanged because the other people thought they were possessed by witches.
- The Cake
- Few dare to challenge the trials. John Proctor accused the girls of faking their fits. Both he and his wife are jailed, and his children are tortured until they testify against their parents.
- People believe witches have magical powers but look normal. There are ways of spotting a witch. To some people, any woman who is grumpy, old, unattractive, unmarried, or without children is a witch.
- Person afflicting them in a dream. Witch Cake. A cake was made of rye meal and urine from afflicted people, encoded with “white magic”, and then fed to a dog. According to English folk understanding, when the dog ate the cake, the witch herself would be hurt.
- I ate to much pee cake.
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