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Salem Witch Trials

What Happened? 10 months in 1692 Betty Parris & Abigail Williams “bitten and pinched by invisible agents; their arms, necks, and backs turned this way and that way, and returned back again…beyond the power of any Epileptick Fits, or natural Disease to effect.”

Finding a Cause Neighbor Mary Sibley & Indian slave Tituba baked a “witch’s cake” & fed it to a dog February 29, 1692 = 3 suspects arrested for witchcraft in Salem

Who was accused? Unpopular Sarah Good & Sarah Osbourne, & Indian slave Tituba By April 1692 = the girls named prominent church women & a former male minister

What about proof? Physical evidence like voodoo dolls “Witch’s Teat” Spectral Evidence

Witch’s Hill June 1692 = 1st accused witch executed Peine fort et dure Accused witches who confessed & named witches would not be executed September 1692 = 100 accused witches in jail

Pressure to Stop Ministers of Salem spoke out against spectral evidence In Salem = 20 accused witches executed In Early Modern Europe = 40,000 – 60,000 accused witches executed

Invisible World of Salem Puritans believed spirits and Satan were present around them Witches made contracts with Satan “Cunning Folk” Conversion hysteria

Visible World of Salem East Salem vs. West Salem Salem Town vs. Salem Village Femme Soles & assertive Femme Coverts targeted