The Salem Witch Trials

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TheSalem Witch Trials

• By
• Ellen

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The Beginning

• The witchcraft hysteria began in 1692.
• There were two Salems at the time Salem Town and
  Salem Village. The trials took place in Salem
  Village.
• A group of Girls learned of magic and voodoo from
  one of the girls familys slave, Tituba.
• When some of the girls became ill, they were
  thought to be afflicted by witchcraft.

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Accusations

• Over a hundred people were accused of witchcraft
  in Salem at the time of the trials.
• Not only were women accused of being witches, but
  six men were also accused.
• If a witch was accused, they might accuse someone
  else of being a witch because if they were being
  tormented by a witch, they couldnt be one.

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Executions

• Twenty four people were executed as witches
  during the Salem Witch Trials.
• The first witch ever executed was Bridgett
  Bishop, June 10, 1692.
• One historian said that belief in witches was
  part of the villagers religion and putting
  witches to death was an expected punishment.

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Cotton Mather

• Cotton Mather is considered one of the major
  villains from the Salem Witch Trials.
• He thought all witches, even those who practiced
  good magic were evil.
• He was a pastor in the Second Church in Boston.
• Cotton Mather had three wives, (not all at once)
  and fifteen children.

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Samuel Parris

• Samuel Parris became the town minister of Salem
  in 1689.
• The witchcraft hysteria of Salem began in his
  home.
• Samuel Parris did not let his daughter or his
  niece play games like tag or hide-and-seek
  because he believed they brought on idleness,
  which let the devil work mischief.

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Tituba the Slave

• Tituba was Samuel Parris slave.
• She was an Indian woman taken from South America
  to Barbados as a child.
• She married Parris other slave, John Indian.
• Tituba taught a group of girls in Salem about
  voodoo, magic, and fortune telling.
• She was one of the first accused witches in
  Salem.
• Tituba went to jail.

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What I think

• I find the Salem Witch Trials very interesting.
• There were many interesting characters during the
  trials.
• I was surprised that no witches were burned in
  Salem.
• I was surprised that only 19 people were killed.
  I thought they executed more witches than that.
  Many were put in jail, though.

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THE END