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this is Diesease and i chose this image because i think disease caused the Salem witch trials.

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this is a person suffering from hysteria.

photo by: FUNLAND5000

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in conclusion i think the main cause of the Salem witch trials was disease and people thinking people were witches because of their behaviors.i think this because their were two main diseases at the time and both caused people to do crazy things.when people saw other people doing these crazy things they probably thought they were a witch or using witchcraft so they put them into a trial .so that's what i think caused the Salem witch trials.

(Document that didn't help me)
the document that didn't help me answer the key question was document "E".this didnt help me because the only information it provided was the ages of people who were either accused or accusers.this information didn't really support the cause i chose either so that's why this source dint help me.

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in document "H" it is talking about a disorder named "hysteria".this disorder affects women and causes them to have shallow volatile emotions. it also causes them to have over dramatic behaviors and attention seeking behaviors.when people saw women having these behaviors they might think their crazy and report them for using witchcraft.than the person get put into a trial.

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this is what ergot looks like growing on wheat.

photograph by:http://www.beefresearch.ca

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to back up the idea that people who could do weird things or had weird featrues made people think they were witches , in the backround essay in the packet it states "a person with a unexpected flap of skin.....".in this qoute it is saying people who had skin tags could be considered a witch.also in the background essay text it says "a man who could hold a rifle,arm extended with his finger in the barrel was suspect".so now from both of those qoutes we can tell that people who could do unusaul things and or had unusual features could be considered a witch and then start a trial.

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another source "encyclopedia Britannica" states that the ergot disease was active during 1692 and during 1692 the salem witch trials happens. so this backs up the idea that the ergot disease might have caused people to weird things and then people thought they were witches.

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deseise may have caused the Salem witch trials because in document "n" it is talking about a desiese that caused "crawling sensations in the skin,tingling in the fingers,vertigo,hallucinations,mania,melancholia,psychosis, and delirium".this caused the salem witch trials because it made a person do weird things and if a person saw a person doing these weird things they might accuse them of a witch.

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what i think caused the Salem witch trials 

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what i think caused the Salem witch trials 

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i think that the main cause of the Salem witch trials was a mix of disease and disorders and random people thinking that people who could do weird things were witches.

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the Salem witch trials accrued from 1692 to 1693 in Salem Massachusetts.anyone who was accused of doing witch craft or being able to do "unordinary things" was subject to being hung or other ways of getting killed.women were mainly accused of being a witch but some men were too.during the year 1692 ,200 people were accused of doing witch craft and 20 were executed. so what caused them, what caused the Salem witch trials?