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Salem Witch Trials

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

EVENTS

  • More than 200 people accused
  • June-Sept took 19 men and woman and hung them for witchcraft
  • Three girls played fortune telling games and listened to stoires
  • Group of girls claiming to be possesed

PEOPLE INVOLVED

  • First to be convicted was Bridiget Bishop
  • Johathan Corwin -trial judge
  • Bartholomew Gedney - trial judge
  • Thomas Danforth- trial judge

OUTCOMES

  • Lots of dead people
  • Then alot of remorse and guilt
  • Along with alot of blaming

The three girls that started it only wanted to play a joke, but it ended up being a huge problem and got a lot of innocent people killed