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Why did the Witch Trials Happen

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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Why did the Witch Trials Happen

By Dominic H. Drudge
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It started with witch trials sweeping over Europe in the 1300s to the1600s.

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January of 1692 hysteria(an exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement) came upon 3 young girls.

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Some symptoms they experienced was “fits,” hiding under furniture, contorting in pain and experiencing fever.

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The girls were 11 year old Abigail Williams, niece of the minister Samuel Parris, and his own 9 year old daughter, Betty.

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Picture of Samuel Parris

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Picture of Abigail Williams

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In Salem the tight-knit community was at a loss to explain the seizures, blasphemous screaming, and trance-like states that afflicted the young girls.

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Why did the witch trials
happen. With this evidence from this presentation it shows that it happened because they thought that the witches were hurting the people.

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" Why Did the Witchcraft Accusations of 1692 Begin in the Village Parsonage?." Notes and Notions. WordPress , 2 Mar. 2011. Web. 9 Sept. 2014.
"The Salem Witch Trials, 1692," EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2000).

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