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There were many reasons why people started accusing others of being witches. One on the main reasons is from foreign influence, there were witch trials all over Europe years before. The other reason is teenage boardom, being a puritan is very plain and boring and this spiced up there lives a little. A third reason was old feuds. People realized that if someone was accused then they would be thrown in jail and have to do the trials, so neighbors, old friends, or people that were upset with each other would accuse because then that person would go away.

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When women would get accused of being witches they would have to go through trials, there were different types of torture and trails that these people would have to go through. They would go to court where they would be checked to see if they had a third nipple (witches mark). Some accused would be hanged, and most would go to jail. Some people would be tied up and thrown in the ocean to see if they sink or swim. One man even got crushed by stones.

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Elizabeth Parris and her cousin Abigail Williams started the witch accusations. It started when the girls accused their caretaker and slave Tituba. The girls also accused Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne because one was poor and the other did not go to church. During the trials Elizabeth and Abigail would copy the actions done by the people accused to make it look like they were under a spell. No one knows why these girls accused Tituba, the Sarah's and many others, but most people say it is because of the attention they received.

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Tituba was a slave that was born in Barbados, she was the first women accused of witchcraft. She was a slave for priest Samuel Parris and took care of Elizabeth Parris and her cousin Abigail Williams. When taking care of the kids Tituba would perform witchcraft for them. One day the children were accused of being affected by witchcraft, they said that Tituba was the witch that was harming them. She went to trail and confessed to being a witch, this confession saved her life.

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Puritans were known for being radical, they did not like the Church of England and wanted to go to a land with no religion. The puritans believed in total depravity, predestination, limited atonement, and grace. The Puritans were very modest with boring clothes, buildings, writings, and food. They crossed over to what is today, America and wanted to make a city upon a hill (utopia) where the government was ruled by God. The Puritans believed that every bad thing happened because of the devil and his helpers (witches and wizards).