SPELL CAST
1692
The hanging tree
Libby Kimball
subtopics Doctors Trials !
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The facts of trials of Salem, Mass. The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were a sequence of events that accused innocent women of witchcraft that led to trails, torture and for some, even death. Of more than 150 people accused of witchcraft, 78% of the people were women. They were accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. 19 people were hanged in the gallows, 14 women and 5 men, one man was pressed to death because he would not tell whether he was guilty or not. Although nobody was burned in Salem, burning at the stake was popular in Europe. The salem witch trials crisis happened in the puritan part of New England. All of the people who lived there were very religious Christians. They were called puritans, and they lived in a certain way when ever something happened like earth quakes or flooding was either the work of god or the devil. A witch was a person who was thought to be working for the devil and signed over to the devil’s book of evil. This they thought that the devil was giving the permission of the women to use her body to go around and
The women were not so innocent sometimes
cause trouble in the town. Many of the accusers were young girls, although some were adults who accused others of witchcraft. All kinds of evidence was used
GIRLS
against the suspects who were accused of being witches, this was to prove them to be on the devils side. They would be accused of harming animals, accused of making people sick, and even pinching people as they slept. The evidence against the women included charges of unladylike behaviors, like yelling at their husbands in public. The court also accepted spectral evidence. Accusers claimed that the ghosts of accused witches, and they said the ghosts were hurting them. Obviously, this kind of evidence was hard to disprove because nobody else would have ever saw the ghost. Although, all of the women who confessed of witchcraft in salem lived, and all of the women who denied it were hung. To surprise there were no real witches in salem. So no women actually signed the devil’s book or had their body’s taken from them, or harm others. Even the women who confessed to the witchcraft were innocent.
I am a witch, people call me the spawn of satan, some say that I signed myself over to him so he could use my body for trouble.
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The circles The girls who were in the circle were going to see tituba everyday. I wanted to be in that circle but the girls said no especially Ann Putnam. I went to tituba for a palm reading she told me that William is ok. I came back and while i WAS THERE little betty was acting as she was possessed she kept saying stuff to me. She said that I should not be there
Tituba, the helper
THE TRIALS BEGIN
Tituba was the women who taught the girl the witchcraft in her master house. She would read hands which was considered evil. She taught the girls spells.
Tituba
The doctors help “Pastor Parris treated abigail’s and Elizabeth’s afflictions by
traveled to the parsonage to see the afflicted girls.” (Salem
forcing them to fast and pray. He also took them to a series of
Witchcraft Trials, 31) Most often the pastor would take the
doctors. For a time the physicians were puzzled, but one of
afflicted girls to physicians/doctors to find out what was
them, Dr.William Griggs, who lived nearby said ‘ “ The
wrong with them. Most doctors did not have any idea
evil hand is upon them; The girls were victims of
what was wrong. But one doctor might have known if
malefic witch craft.” ‘
that doctor believed in witchcraft himself. The doctors
“The majority of physicians at that time believed
would tell the pastor and the pastor most time did not
in witchcraft and considered it as the cause of many
believe it at first, but as time went on he saw how the
diseases that they did not understand. Parris at first
acted. The doctors told the pastor to bring the children
refused to believe the girls were bewitched but the
to a parsonage whee the whole town could see them and
neighbors certainly did. People from all over the countryside
LOREM IPSUM
how the acted most of the time everyone in the town would
WHAT?
WHEN
WHO
WHY
what people were accused of witchcraft then they were tried, tortured then killed.
when The salem witch trials took place in 1692 and lasted to 1693.
Ut facilisis
why Puritans didn’t like anything new or anything that went against go or the church. They were scared to say anything new or discover anything new.
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People who looked different or acted different were often to be accused. like people with freckles or birthmarks or red hair. because they were different
PURITANS
Puritans were believed in the accusers! demons and The puritans were
evil spirits in
satan was present and
When things
order to main factors to confirm the the trials. They belief in god and angels. believed that
was the main
went wrong in everyday life
cause of this crisis. The
they would blame it on
puritans
supernatural
The Puritans were strongly opposed to the Catholic Church. The Puritan colonists believed that the Church of England, also known as the Anglican church, should make more reforms to remove all the traces and trappings of the Roman Catholic Church. A Pilgrim was a member of a distinct group of puritans who were not only against the Anglican church but also called for total separation from the church. The religion practiced in New England was strictly Puritan and the Puritans did not tolerate any other religions - refer to Pilgrims and Puritans.
Puritans definition:
Puritans were the names given to members of a church congregation and is used to describe their beliefs and religions. Refer to Religion in the
Puritans Puritans didn’t like anything new or anything that went against god. They were afraid of the witches because they thought that the witches worked for the devil and let him take over their body to do evil to the town.
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1.Blackamoor
noun
a black African;; a very dark-skinned person.
Pg.19 I had never been this close to a blackamoor
It is referring to a black person and they do not say negro or african they say blackamoor. they did not have a lot of black people back then.
2.Doublets
noun
either of a pair of similar things, in particular.
Pg.78 And the mens doublets on the shelves in
The things that go on a jacket but some people do not wear them any more.
front of me.
3.Garbed
verb
dress in distinctive clothes.
Pg.56 I have seen you thus garbed.
They dressed in different clothes than what we do today.
4.Papist
noun
a Roman Catholic.
Pg. 74 Declared papist and pagan at the same time.
If you did something else the church did not do you were always bad
5.Pagan
noun
a person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.
Pg.74 Declared papist and pagan at the same time.
They believed in some other beliefs they could have been killed.
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adj
a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.
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Where he often went about saying there was no religious freedom under puritans. pg #15
Because the word puritan is meaningful to this time period because a puritan was a religion that did not like anything that was new and basically afraid of witch craft.
7.Jackanapes
noun
an impertinent person.
Pg.98 I think they are a bunch thats what they said to of jackanapes who are teasing. describe people who were acting stupid.
8.ye
pronoun
plural form of thou
Pg.13 Because they won’t let ye join them.
9.folk
noun
people in general.
pg. I don’t remember the page # we refer to people as folks please sit down. people.
10.tis
contraction
contraction it is.
Pg.76 Tis not my meaning of that of Doctors Griggs.
its just the language they used.
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it’s just the language they used back then.