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http://www.salemwitchtrials.com/biographies.html she said just to mention these people, like say these are the characters in the book.

http://www.salemwitchtrialsfacts.com/index.php?m=11&y=07&d=18&entry=entry071118-023457 Some cleared up misunderstandings of the Salem Witch Trials.

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Jordan Knopp﻿﻿ ﻿﻿﻿ Wikipedia- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials · The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before county court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in the counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex in Colonial Massachusetts , between February 1692 and May 1693. · Despite being generally known as the Salem witch trials, the preliminary hearings in 1692 were conducted in a variety of towns across the province: Salem Village (now Danvers), Ipswitch, Andover, and Salem Town. · Over 150 people were arrested and imprisoned, with even more accused but not formally pursued by the authorities. Salem Witch Trials FAQS- http://www.salemwitchtrials.com/faqs.html · Victims were hanged in Colonial America, and were burnt at the stake in Europe. · Examinations first began on March 1st, 1692, and the trials began on May 27, 1692. · The last witch trials were held in January 1693, and in May of the same year.

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/life/religion.html-Since Puritans were expected to live by a rigid moral code, they believed that all sins—from sleeping in church to stealing food—should be punished. They also believed God would punish sinful behavior. When a neighbor would suffer misfortune, such as a sick child or a failed crop, Puritans saw it as God’s will and did not help.

Puritans also believed the Devil was as real as God. Everyone was faced with the struggle between the powers of good and evil, but Satan would select the weakest individuals—women, children, the insane—to carry out his work. Those who followed Satan were considered witches. Witchcraft was one of the greatest crimes a person could commit, punishable by death.

In keeping with the Puritan code of conformity, the first women to be accused of witchcraft in Salem were seen as different and as social outcasts: Tituba, a slave; Sarah Good, a homeless beggar; and Sarah Osborne, a sickly old woman who married her servant.

Lates Sometime during February of the exceptionally cold winter of 1692, young Betty Parris became strangely ill. She dashed about, dove under furniture, contorted in pain, and complained of fever. The cause of her symptoms may have been some combination of stress, asthma, guilt, boredom, child abuse, epilepsy, and delusional psychosis. The symptoms also could have been caused, as Linda Caporael argued in a 1976 article in //Science// magazine, by a disease called "convulsive ergotism" brought on by injesting rye--eaten as a cereal and as a common ingredient of bread--infected with ergot. (Ergot is caused by a fungus which invades developing kernels of rye grain, especially under warm and damp conditions such as existed at the time of the previous rye harvest in Salem. Convulsive ergotism causes violent fits, a crawling sensation on the skin, vomiting, choking, and--most interestingly--hallucinations. The hallucinogenic drug LSD is a dervivative of ergot.) Many of the symptoms or convulsive ergotism seem to match those attributed to Betty Parris, but there is no way of knowing with any certainty if she in fact suffered from the disease--and the theory would not explain the afflictions suffered by others in Salem later in the year. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_ACCT.HTM



