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Salem Witch Trials
Title: Salem Witch Trials
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1578 | Pages: 6.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Salem Witch Trials
In the winter of 1692, a wave of witch hysteria surrounded the settlement of Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The accusations began with two little girls who were acting strangely. There are many underlying factors to why these thoughts of witchcraft started coming about. These issues were going on before that winter of 1692. The winter of 1692 was the onset of the hysterics behind the witchcraft trials.
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…showed last 75 words of 1578 total…these events. As the witchcraft fever died down, people began to see it for what it was. It was something that began as personal fear, grew with neighborhood suspicion, and then expanded through the region promoted by the time’s tensions (Roach 83). As the Reverend John Hale wrote in 1697, “We walked in the clouds and could not see our way. And we have most cause to be humbled for error… which cannot be retrieved.” (Rice 102).
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