The Salem Witch Trials How the victims were unfairly accused
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How the victims were unfairly accused Over 200 people were accused of being a witch but only 20 people were killed ____________ There were many trials to test if someone was a witch. Such as the water trial where they would put the alleged witch in water and if they floated they were a witch
__________________ You might think that the women in the Salem witch trials were burned on the stake because they were witches but that isn’t true. The Women of the Salem witch trials in 1692-1693 were unfairly accused of being witches. This is true because The women accused were accused because they didn’t have the ideal life of whoever was in charge, They were accused because they weren’t like everyone else, and because they were women
To much or to little? First of all, the women in the Salem witch trials were unfairly accused because They didn’t have the life that whoever was in charge thought was the perfect life/ situation. Women of the Salem witch trials were mainly accused because they were women but also 1
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because they didn’t have the life that whoever was in charge though was the perfect life or the idea of a perfect life. For example if you had to many or not enough kids, If you were in a low social class, and if you were rich or poor. According to MentalFloss.com and other sites if you had to much or not enough children, If you were in a low social class, or if you were rich or poor you were considered/accused of being a witch. Because Women didn’t have the right amount of money, kids, or social credit women were unfairly executed.
Unique or a witch?
The most common trial to test for witches was being burned at the stake. They believed that if you burned you were a witch.
Next, Women in the Salem witch trials were unfairly accused of being witches not only because they were women and they didn’t have the “perfect life’” in the eyes of whoever was in charge but also because they weren’t like everyone else. For example if they could do something that nobody else could do or had something that was unique about there body. You would also be accused if you had a mole or birthmark, if you could do something that no one else could, or if you were better at something then someone. In the story, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Kit Tyler was accused of being a witch because she could swim because her grandfather taught her but where she moved to no one else could swim so she was thought of being a witch. Women being accused of being a witch because of having unique traits/differences is very unfair.
Women Last but not least, women in the Salem witch trials were unfairly accused of being witches because they were women. During the time of the Salem witch trials men thought that women were useless and 2
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meaningless so all of the people that were executed not only because of all of the reasons in this article but a big part of it was because they were witches. Some reasons why females were accused is because Men at that tine thought that women were nothing, Men thought that they owned women, and because of this no women had any say in the witch trials. According to womenhistoryblog.com the world in the 1600s was a man’s world especially in the Salem area. And according to mentalfloss.com the main reason for being suspected a witch is because you are female. Women being accused of being a witch and sentenced to death because of your gender is an extremely unfair reason to have such a fate.
__________________ After all, women in the Salem witch trials were unfairly accused of being witches. They were accused because they didn’t have the perfect amount of children, money, and social credit, because they had differences, and because they were female.
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