Salem Witch Trials

Part I of Essay
Superstition and witchcraft resulted in many being hanged or in prison. In the seventeenth century, a belief in witches andwitchcraft was almost universal. In Salem Massachusetts where thewitch trials take place many people who are suspicious is accused of witchcraft and ha ....

Part II of Essay
.... affliction spread widely. "The afflicted, under the influence of the witchery, "admitted to see the forms of their tormentors with their inner vision" (Miller 1082). and would immediately accuse some individual seen with the devil. At times the afflicted and the accused became so numerous thatno one was safe from suspicion and its consequences. Even those who were active in the prosecutions became objects of suspicion. Revenge often impelled persons to accuse others who were innocent and when some statement of the accused would move the cou ....