The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692: The History, Proceedings, and Legal Consequences of the Mass Hysteria

Salem, Massachusetts Prior to the 1600's, it was considered a peaceful agricultural community, but everything changed in 1662. It may be regarded as part of religious fanatics, but in fact the fear panic against witches and magic spread through Massachusetts Christian Puritan led Essex County. Panic began in the now infamous Salem town. During the trial of the famous Salem Witch of 1662, more than 150 men and women were officially sued magically.

The Salem Witch trial began in 1692. These trials in Salem caused hysteria. Twenty people were criticized as magic and executed. More than 100 people were guilty and sent to prison. However, "Since there is no movement of Salem hunting, it was hanged with numbers and imprisoned, but it really happened" (Hill 1). Thirty years after the first wave of enthusiasm in Europe (Hill 1), these tests began. - ... sudden violent death occupied thought. Before the trial, a young girl hiding in the town of Salem, there are several cases. The girls, under the influence of epilepsy and hallucinations, blame the ladies in the town and they condemn the witches. They believed that they owned them. As we know today, seizures and hallucinations are caused by ergot (fungus found in rye grains)

Since spring of 1692, the infamous Salem Witch Trial began in the village of Salem, Massachusetts. These trials led to over 200 people prosecuted with magic, of which 20 were killed. Due to condemnation of magic by local women, hysteria spread throughout town. To this day, the causes and causes of craziness are confused. There is a reason to make a useful reasonable bondage to the neck of an unknown creature living on another planet - still alive, it may be in the original state called freedom. We must make them happy, if they do not understand that they brought us mathematically perfect happiness.

In February 1692, the village of Salem, the colony of the Massachusetts Bay, found himself at the center of a notoriously massive hysterical case. At the end of the episode in May 1693, 14 women, 5 men and 2 dogs were executed with so-called supernatural crimes. Emily Ostar believes that "small ice age" caused economic deterioration and food shortages and caused anti-magical enthusiasm in the American and European communities in the 16th and 17th centuries. Temperatures began to decline in the early 14th century and the coldest season occurred between 1680 and 1730.