Lillie starks Pd 22/2/17SALEM WITCHTRIALSA HAUNTING REALITY…Sarah Good, Bridget Bishop, Rebecca Nurse, Elizabeth Howe,Susannah Martin. The list of names that have burned themselves into thehistory of America goes on and on. It all started in Salem, Massachusettsaround spring time of 1692, The salem witch trials. Over 200 would betrialed or accused and around twenty total were hung on the infamousgallows hill. After the European’s paranoia of witchcraft happened thecolonial americas would begin doubting their own people to the point ofexecuting the particularly wrongly accused. Things began after the small town’s first ordained minister took order.His name was Samuel Parris and he was known to be greedy and unlikedby many people. Some people even…
But they could never be one hundred percent proven. After Phippshad this motivation to end the witch trials or at least to only put people totrial that had non-spectral evidence was how this revolutionary changehappened. He dismissed any further witch arrests, released many currentcases, and dissolved the court of oyer and terminer (the court meaning tohear and determine for the witch trials) He then replaced the old court withthe court of judicature that would only go through trials with solid evidence.After that only 3 or 56 were condemned. After all was said and done the families of the wrongly accused andconvicted and even executed were subject to some compensation.Massachusetts will be forever victim to their own wrong doings. It is veryhaunting to think that on the old gallows hill innocent men and women andeven children were hung because of false accusations claiming they wereworshipers of the devil. To know that Giles Corey, an innocent 71 year oldman was pressed and beaten with stone till he died because he wouldn’tadmit to the sinful thing he didn’t do. All in the little town of Salem,Massachusetts. Salem, a town of witches…a town of liars…a town ofscared paranoid…
