The History of the Salem Witch Hunts

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On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Caroline, and I'm here to tell you about Witchcraft. Everybody knows, or almost everybody knows about the great witchcraft trials in Massachusetts, which was I believe sixteen ninety-two. Where some little girls were playing around with a Barbados mate named Tuba, and they got caught by the girls' father who was a Reverend. So imagine that. A whole big to do, and the girls started faking saying the Devil did it, because this way they would get out of being in trouble. This led to a whole blown out thing of people trying to go for each others' land. There would be an old lady in town, who maybe wasn't so nice to people, she probably had who knows, arthritis, was in pain, and the little kids would taunt her. And right away she would be labeled a witch, which is what happened with one of the women. Another woman owned a great deal of land, and the neighbor's child said that she was coming to visit her at night. So, they took over her land, and deemed her a witch. There was one gentleman out of the nineteen I believe it was who had been accused of witchcraft. And what they did to him, was they took him and piled rocks on top of him. Now this is a very slow and awful way to die. So with each rock they would say 'Do you admit that you were cavorting with Satan?' and of course being the good Puritan that he was, he said he wasn't. So after I believe it was a day and a half, the poor man finally died. And then eventually they all came to their senses after nineteen senseless deaths, of people who were more than likely not practicing Wiccas. The trials came to an end. Now that's just the American history here. We could go all the way back to Europe, and that where witches were hanged, burned, sometimes hanged and then burned. Tortured, and this would be mainly for people who were a little bit different than other people. So if I had red hair, and blue eyes, in a community with people that were brown haired or black haired, you could bet I would be the next one on the chopping block.

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