Witchcraft in Salem

Salem's Witch In the past, the word Salem was synonymous with the infamous witch trial. Many think that it is difficult to imagine a community torn up by confusion thanks to Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" and many other works. . When he wrote this article. However, Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum saw quite different pictures when mentioning Salem witch trials.

Salem Witchcraft Trial: trial and prosecution of a person targeted magical in Salem, Massachusetts. Today's events are expressed not as massive hysteria, a legitimate process, but as a dangerous consequence of religious extremism. Settlers believe that women are second class citizens without voice and believe they have easily been convicted erroneously. During the establishment of the proper procedure in the fifth revision, these tensions appeared in the colonial society, as women were ignorant and seen to be unable to think freely, they could not vote in the US until 1920 .

The Salem magical test that took place in 1692 is another example of religious zeal for Puritan colonies in Massachusetts. The trial of Salem magic lasted three months and there was a magical accusation against both men and women. The Salem magic trial resulted in an arrest of 100-200 people, 19 people were sentenced to death for a suspension, an old man was murdered under a heavy stone, one was sentenced to death, and two dogs He was executed as a fellow of a suspicious witch. (Devil)

Therefore, at the end of the woman who started the Salem magic trial, Tituba, a slave woman, became the first man suspected of magic in Salem. She just gave the most explosive testimony in history, seeming to explain Salem's transcendental of 1692, a mysterious rivet story, a curse of a witch, a devil's book and an evil animal and a soul . The story of Titusba is as mysterious as any other part of the Salem Witch trial and may be fictitious. Even in the events of the 1690s that caused 20 deaths, legends and rumors were common. It is difficult to unlock them from a distance, and all historians definitely know Tituba comes from her courtroom testimony during her infamous trial.