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The testimony also said that

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She lied in her own admission of being a witch.

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Margret Jacobs, one of the confessed witches who had testified against him, came to beg forgiveness. Margret admitted to him that she had lied. She had lied to help convict Burroughs, lied to her convict her own grandfather, George Jacobs, lied in her own admission for being a witch.

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For among the accused was Philip English, the richest man in Salem, the owner of twenty-one ships and fourteen buildings.

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Ever since Tituba mapped out the conspiracy of evil, one figure stood out as the mastermind: the man in black. He was the devil, who held the book inscribed with the names of the damned and led the satanic meetings.

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The judge had heard many names on April 30. Aside from George Burroughs, he had also heard the names Philip English, Daniel Andrew, and John Alden. All those people were very wealthy. In fact, they were the wealthiest men in Salem.

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When they looked directly at her, Ann could see their eerie, pale faces, and they revealed that Burroughs had murdered both of them.

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George Burroughs, a former minister, was arrested in his new house in what is now Wells, Maine. From there they took him to Salem. Supposedly Burroughs had murdered both of his wives. According the author, the ghost of his wives had told Ann that they had seen him cast spells in hell.

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Supposedly, Burroughs want Mercy to sign the black book, a book filled with evil. Then he took her to see the kingdom of Earth and told her that he could give it all to her.

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Based on Ann´s word and many other similar spirit sightings, Burroughs was arrested in his new home, the town that is now called Wells, Maine, and brought back to Salem.

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Rebecca Nurse swore she was innocent, she said that the lord knew that she didn't hurt the accusers.

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Accused people would go to jail and there would be no further punishment.

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¨I know, I know what will make you afraid: the wrath of angry God. I am sure that will make you afraid. Be gone, do not torment me. I know what you would have, but it is out of your reach. It is clothed with the white robes of Christ´s righteousness¨ Ann cried as she was trying to fight of the evil spirit of Goodwife Nurse.

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Ann Sr had symptoms of witchcraft. Ann Sr had the same symptoms that the Goodwin children had. She later was fighting someone of. She screamed ¨Goodwife Nurse, be gone! Be gone! Be gone!¨

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Although, in the end, all the confessed witches risked being executed, that ultimate fate would come in the future, whereas confessing would end the heated clash in court.

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¨If Martha Corey was the test case of the accusers power, Rebecca Nurse was the proof¨ The mother of Rebecca Nurse had once been accused of being a witch. Plus, Rebecca Nurse was known for spreading gossip.

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As Tiatbas case had shown, an accused witch who confessed was no longer of interest to the accusers or the court.

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Later, the girls said there was nothing to the accusations. They said "I did it for sport, we must have some sport.¨

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12 years after the witch trial, Lawson reported that he saw Susannah Sheldon had been found tied up also testified that brooms and poles were whisked out of their housed by spirits.

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Sarah Good had said that a evil spirit had stabbed her with a knife. For evidence, she brought a broken knife to the court room, but people accused her of lying.

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Many people got wounds from the trials. May people didn't want to show there wounds or scars.

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They used real ropes to hang people from hooks from which they had to be cut down.

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Elizabeth How had stuck a pin in Ann's hands. In later years, Reverend Lawson had reported that pins were stuck in accusers upper and lower lips.

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In the Salem Witch trials, pins kept coming up during the trials.

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The accusers believed that the bird was drawn by Martha's blood. The bird was "sticking upright" according to the accusers.

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One accuser, Susannah Sheldon, apparently was bound four times in two weeks by two evil spirts and had to be cut free repeatedly by friends and neighbors.

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The girls claimed that they saw a yellow bird suckling from in between Martha's fingers. The judge was going to see if there was suckling marks on Martha's fingers, but the accusers said it was too late.

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Mrs. Pope was screaming that she had some bowels thrown by witches, so in anger, Mrs. Pope started throwing things at Martha.

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If a men reported that one of the young accusers fits were real, than the court would not only heed the girl, yet also an established man.

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Witches were accused of bring death upon infants.  Supposedly, queen of the witches ¨smelled infant blood to dance with Lapland witches¨.

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The judges quickly looked to see if there was any evidence of suckling marks on Martha's hands, but the accusing girl said it was too late.

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To the court, the fact that so many accusers made the same claims suggested that they were telling the truth and that Martha was lying.

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Martha would pray in church so she wouldn't be accused of witchcraft.

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Supporters of Salem Village

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Corey was arrest on a Monday night in March. She was trying to prove to Judge Hathorne that she was innocent but Hathorne didn't believe her.

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Wabanaki people were aided by French Catholics devasted what was then the northern portion of the colony, which is nowadays Maine.

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In the 1690s, the New Englanders were feeling the threat of the Indians with ever-growing force.

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How Protestants And Farmers Are The Same

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How Protestants And Farmers Are The Same

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Devout Protestants saw themselves living their own lives by their own rules, just how farmers wanted to wanted to break off from the merchants of Salem Town. Everyone in the English-speaking world was slowly being drawn together in bonds of commerce and law, writing and conversation.

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The issues in Salem went from "How did I let Satan in?" to "Who is using Satan against me?" The turning point come along with a slave woman from Barbados, Tituba.

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The infection had seemed to travel along line of the poisonous rifts in Salem. No one in Salem Town had been affected. In Salem Village the Putnam family, which were the leaders for the farm group, and those most active in supporting Parris were the hardest hit by all the trouble.

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Betty and Abigail had experienced something similar to the Goodwin children, whom Cotton Mather had written about.

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Betty and Abigail had begun behaving in a very strange way. According to John Hale, the girls had experienced being pinched and bitten by something invisible, on their arms, necks, and backs.

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The two girls got their futures told by dropping an egg white into water and interpreting the shapes that formed. They were terrified by what they had seen which it led to them thinking: Could these girls be Betty and Abigail?

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John Hale was a minister had experience dealing with cases that involved witchcraft and had been personally involved in with events in Salem.

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The first discovered was Tituba herself.  The girls said that Tituba pinch and grievously torment them. They also claimed that she appeared to them in a in different places where nobody else could see her.

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Mary Sibley was the "actual witch". It was her idea to make the rye biscuits

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Elizabeth and Abigail accused Tituba of doing witchcraft on them. Tituba was Samuel Parris's slave from Barbados. The girls said that she had a rye flour kind of biscuit. The biscuit was made from the girls urine and then fed dog. The dog or animal would led them to the witch or the witch would be  drawn to the animal.

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The outbreak of witches caused made many people "sick". The most famous story for the "sickness" was Samuel Parris's nine-year-old daughter Elizabeth, which they called Betty, and eleven- or twelve-year-old niece Abigail Williams

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Daughter of Samuel Parris,  the minister of Salem Village and friend to the Putnams

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Tituba was accused of being a witch. There was 2 different stories for this. In the first story,. Samuel Parris beat and abused her until she confessed she was a witch. In the other story, Parrish took the girls to a doctor. The doctor told Parrish it was witchcraft. Parris had a remedy of prayer and fasting until the girls got better.

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Joseph Putnam was the wealthiest person in Salem. He decided that he wanted to get married. His wife was Elizabeth Porter. After Joseph died, Elizabeth got the will and she handed the will over to the Porters. It was the ultimate betrayal

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Salem was the first town established in the massachusetts bay

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The Porters support the mercents

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Putnams support the farmers

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Salem Village was made up of farmers. The Putmans supported Salem Village.

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The Putmans supported Salem Village, which was made up of farmers. The Porters supported Salem Town, which was made up of merchants. So the the farmers fought the merchants.

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The first town that was established in Massachusetts was Salem.

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The Putmans and the Porters were some of the richest families in Salem. They were rivals.

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The rituals

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When a baby was born, the parents passes the baby through holes in nature. Parents usually passed their baby though a tree. There is a tree in Salem with a large hole in it.

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A witch was a person that did bad things to people. A witch could curdle milk, hobble animals, and even cause young children to sicken and die. A witch could be both a female and male. Witch harmed people, their crops, and animals. Witches could also   tell people future.

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Then witch had puppets

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A witch is a person who could do harm through magical means

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Puritans especially feared being attacked by the witches

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A black man assaulted a woman's son, the black man went into the son's room to torment him

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¨When the Puritans landed in America, one if their descendants, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote, when one of them was killed by a wolf, he claim his reward by nailing it ¨on the porch of the meeting house,¨ where the blood would drip onto the door step.¨

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When Martha Goodwin was 13, she noticed that the family´s linen was missing and he suspected the washerwoman.

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Glover, was just a poor woman, but she seemed able to cause great harm using the powers of evil