The Witches of Salem

In 1692, a group of girls in Salem, Massachusetts, was strangely influenced after hearing the story that West Indian slaves had told. When they were asked, they criticized several women for being a witch who had tormented them. The citizen was shocked, but it was not surprising. Faith in magic was common in the United States and Europe throughout the 17th century.

What happened next - despite the isolated incident in American history - provided a vivid window to the social and psychological world of Puritan New England. The town authorities summoned the court to hear the magic allegations, promptly convicted Bishop Bridget, the owner of the pub, and enforced it. The other five women were convicted within a month and hanged

However, hysteric growth is mainly because it allows the court to testify that the witness treated the accused as a spirit or vision. Because of its essence, this "spectral evidence" is particularly dangerous as it can not be verified or objectively tested. By the fall of 1692, more than 20 victims, including several men, were executed and more than 100 people were imprisoned. Some of them are the most outstanding citizens of the city. But now, the hysterical threat spreads beyond Salem, and all colonial ministers are demanding the end of the trial. The colonial governor consented to the court and dismissed it. People who are still in jail were later released or released without innocence

The trial of Salem witch has fascinated Americans for a long time. At the psychological level, most historians believe that the Salem village of 1692 was captured by public hysteria, driven by a true belief in the existence of magic. They pointed out that some girls are acting, but many responsible adults are in the middle of fanaticism as well.

But more stimulating is further analysis of the accused and the identity of the accused. Like most of New England colonies at the time, Salem Village has undergone economic and political change, mainly from agriculture, Puritan-led community to a more commercial and secular society. Many accusers are representatives of traditional lifestyles related to agriculture and church, and some of the defendant's witches are members of small shopkeepers and merchants who continue to rise in business class. In American history Salem's struggle for social and political power between the old traditional group and the new business class is appearing again. But when its citizens were swept away by the loose belief in their home devil, it took a strange and deadly detour.

Salem Witch Judgment is also a dramatic allegory that produces a sensational but erroneous accusation about fatal consequences. In fact, the obituary often used in political debates for many people is "witch hunting".

Cotton Mother and Salem Witch Trial The Salem Witch trial in 1692 was held in the Puritan community of Salem, Massachusetts. Salem 's pastor, Cotton Mather appeared as a pillar through the trial and eventually became a witch hunter. But his motive at the beginning of the trial was promoted by his Puritan reasoning, which was convinced of the law of the Bible.

In the Salem Witch trial, the witch theory was born in London. But Salem Witch Trials raises witch hunting to a whole new level. Women who are accused of magic are the various people of society. For example, a widowed woman does not have a husband to protect them, so it can easily be a target of magic. Jews are always hated by society. But when the idea of ​​Adolf Hitler's "perfect" race is made, the Jews will be killed. At first, Nazis banished Jews from society as witches were rejected by society. Germans also believe that the Jews are "an external threat to the so-called German society". This is the reason why Hitler exterminates them so they do not hurt or reproduce German tribes.