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Arthur Miler is responsible for writing one of the most influencial productions of all time being "The Crucible". The play depicts the Salam Witch Trials from 1692-1693 and it's treacherous impact on history. What makes this play rather impactful is it was written during the Communist Witchhunts happening in the 50's due to it's similarities. Even with it's bomb in sales when it was performed, as it aged it has shifted the reality of America. This prevented more witch hunts for happening for the next 50 years cementing itself in history.

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Puritans started as people who were sick of the English Church and later evacuated due to religious persectuion. These people sailed to Massachusetts, now known as the Pilgrams, to seek their own perception of religion. They started Calvinism which believed that god chose who goes to heaven no matter the person's morality and that Witches were on the rise. Unfortunately, for a lack of a better term they only focused on their religion, even making God "their ruler". This made their society much less advanced in terms of knowledge and Medical assistense.

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It all started when Revren Parris' daughter fell ill without proper medical assistence, the doctor's claimed it was the work of witch craft. A group of women then hatched a plan which would gain both attention, publicity, and possibly profit from it. They then began accusing low status citizens of being witches with unreliable evidence call Spectual Evidence. Later once they've run out of low citizens to accuse, they started accusing high leveled and well respected members of the community. They got their publicity sure, but it caused the death of 25 people.

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Another Illustration of one of the Trials

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The trials held to find a witch were very mysterious because the cases themselves weren't documented, but told from stories shared by others. As stated in How it Started, most of these cases started with Women feeling mildly pained or faking their suffering all together which was their "Spectual Evidence". Other then the few who got out of trouble by "confessing", most of the victims were sent off for execution. One thing that should be mentioned is some supernatural events allegedly actually happened with some victims being carved with scratchs from Witches and some feeling ice cold when touched. We'll never know what truly happened in those trials and only have to rely on the fables of it.

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Out of the 200 people accused, thirty three were convicted with twenty two getting killed with the other eleven getting sent to prison. Originally before the trials, a method for testing witchs which was incredibly lethal was "Swimming a Witch" which partically guaranteed Witches and Non Witches to die. As of the trials, a common execution method was hanging which lead to the death of twenty one. The extra death consisted of Giles Cory being crushed by a stone because he refuses to elaborate with the officials. The ones executed weren't even buried near a church, they were typically buried far away from the town in shallow graves.