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the girls wanted to be noticed in their society because women were viewed as weaker and less valuable than man were in those times. So the girls gave themselves attention but the attention they got was in a bad way so they put the attention on someone else

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I think that young women acted crazy or bad so they were accused of being a witch. Once they were accused, the girls tried to pass the blame on to others

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Women were being accused of being a witch, so those women pushed the blame onto other women to avoid punishment.

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I think people were quick to make accusations that they couldn't necessarily prove. During the Salem Witch Trials they accused women who had a few things in common(not attending church) of horrible things even tho the girls could've been making up the entire story.

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I think that the girls were caught in the act of doing bad things, they took people who their community and parents deemed "bad" to blame

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In salem the girls just wanted attention at first but then started blaming others of witchcraft because they were paranoid. They started finding little things that they believed would make people a witch such as not going to church.

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There was an alleged witch. And it sent the town into panic. The accused girls blamed others in order to deflect the blame from themselves and it caused unrest and a change in the american perception of justice

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I think that once people found out that one woman was a "witch" they went crazy and tried to round up anyone who was different and committed sins.

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I think that in Salem girls were pretending to do witchcraft, but then they started placing the blame on others because they were scared of what was gonna happen to them.

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What i think
happened in Salem was that girls and women were being accused of being witches. People thought the women and girls were possessed and the girls started acting out and accusing girls that weren't witches

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The young women listened to the witch's story and people believed they were possessed by the witches. It seems to me that the girls were choosing to misbehave and were not possessed.

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I don't think that the girls were making it up or "faking it", I also don't think that they were possessed. I think that it just genuinely messed with their heads and made them a little delusional/"crazy".

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I think that young women wanted attention, so they acted like they went crazy which lead people to think that it was witch craft.

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Women were accused of being witches. The girls didn't know if they were possessed or not. People were scared of witchcraft so they started wrongly accusing people of being witches.

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I believe that the girls were just acting like they were possessed. When they started to get accused of being witches, they began accusing others to get the focus off of them.

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I think it started with a simple game that they played for fun, but when the girls were accused to be witches, they started to blame others to spare themselves. This snowballed into the Salem Witch Trials.

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I agree with Gretta. I think the girls were just trying to have a little bit of fun and in doing so ended up getting themselves higher up on the social scale. Then things got really out of hand and out of human nature they blamed others for their odd behavior

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They would throw themselves in the fire because they couldn't handle certain religious things.

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It's amazing on how people had thoughts about people being insane/witches, so people went on witch hunts to find the 'possessed'

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I think that the girls believed that they were under witchcraft, but they actually weren't they just believed what the slave was telling them.

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I believe the girls enjoyed the stories at first, but got in fear of being caught, so blamed the outcasts in hopes of saving their own lives.

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Girls were paranoid and afraid of witches and believed they were possessed. People were also accused of witchcraft.

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I think some of the girls started acting like this for the attention and some may have actually believed it, and once it started getting out of hand, they would blame it on someone else to avoid being punished.

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Women in Salem were accused of witchcraft and gained attention. Other people wanted to also become witches after hearing their stories.

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I think that people were afraid of the idea of witchcraft, so they started saying that the girls were witches, which led to the women being murdered.

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I think the girls blamed others for being witches to get the attention off of themselves.They accused many people of witchcraft who may or may not have been a part of it.

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It's amazing how these stories changed the girls, kinda sPoOky even. They did a complete 180 from being "normal" to being a "witch." It's kind of selfish that they blame minority groups that can't defend themselves.

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I think the girls were faking at first for fun, but then once witch stuff started getting out of hand, they pushed the blame on others

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I believe that people believed and were afraid of witches, and started accusing innocent girls of being witches, leading the girls to believe they were possessed.

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People had abnormal thoughts about people being insane or "witches," so people went on witch hunts to find the 'possessed'

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did untold damage to many people’s lives and careers, had a muzzling effect on domestic debate on Cold War issues, and managed to scare millions of Americans.

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I think the women were paranoid and genuinely thought that they were possessed/doing witchcraft. They could have also just gone insane through their fear.

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People misunderstood these girls or saw something that wasn't "natural." Rumor spread and people got scared and hysteria took over. The girls might have actually been witches or just trying to stir up something. Everyone in the situation seemed to be insane and "possessed" by suspicion.

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I think it started as the girls defending themselves from the accusation of witchcraft by passing the blame onto others. From there on, they feared to pull out of the ruse and simply continued. Otherwise... it was really witchcraft!!!

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Many women in Salem acted out and accused each other of witchcraft to gain attention and cause an uproar.

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Many women of Salem were being accused/accusing others of witchcraft. The women didn't know if they were possessed or not.

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People wrongfully accused innocent girls they thought were possessed

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Women in salem were being accused of witchcraft. I think some women were guilty of being witches but others were wrongly accused and punished.

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Believed that people (mainly women) were witches or participated in witchcraft. A large amount of these people that were believed to be witches were killed.

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People saw something abnormal and they thought "hey, that's not right" and then they accused them of witchcraft and often killed them.

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People believed that people were posessed or that they were witches

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People, particularly women, were being accused as being witches, and were often killed burned, or drowned.

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I think that people believed that they were witches who were possessed. They were accused by people in their town.

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Some people believed they were possessed. Many people in the village were accused of witchcraft especially women.

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I believe the girls had curiosity and eventually convinced themselves that there is magic and they escalated it so much that they actually became insane.

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Women believed that they were witches/possessed and that they could tempt others into becoming witches.

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I think they were very bored and insane, and wanted to gain some land and wealth. Most of the people at the time probably thought the girls were possessed.

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It seems like they were crazy girls who wanted attention and found this to be an easy way to get it.

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I think people believed they were actually possessed because the other people around them thought it to

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Some women in Salem believed that they were possessed and while they may or may not have actually been possessed, these women were persecuted.

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Personally, I was not alive at this time, and I'm certainly not a time traveler. I don't think there is enough evidence either to draw a conclusion whether or not these people were witches. I think the ones being accused were not witches, and probably all the accusers were not witches either - they must've had their own motives. Only one example shows that she could've been a witch, which was Tituba, and some of the people, such as the girls, could've been possessed, but not witches themselves.

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Some girls were accused of being possessed as witches. Women were acting immoral in society, which explains the theories that they were being held under witchcraft.

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Groups of girls believed they were possessed and people were accused of witchcraft. Those accused of witchcraft lost all of their property, so people accused others of witchcraft so they could take their land.

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There were a select group of girls that believed they were possessed. Some accused people of witchcraft in order to gain their land.

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What Happened in Salem? (Raegan Meskimen)

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What Happened in Salem? (Raegan Meskimen)

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The girls who believed they were possessed genuinely thought that they were witches. I think that this group of girls were most likely crazy. Accusations against people being witches were most likely based off of fear.

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I think that overall, people were just scared of the possibility of "witches" and persecuted women that were a little unstable, causing these women to believe that they were actually possessed.

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A group of girls believed they were possessed and began accusing people of witchcraft. Fear and hysteria replaced reason and good judgement and the people accused of witchcraft were persecuted.

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The girls that were thought to be witches either actually believed they were possessed or they just said they were. Either way they got attention and sentenced themselves to death by believing or acting.

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It is interesting that the Salem Witch Trials had such an impact on the laws of the United States. It is terrible that people were considered guilty until proven innocent, when it should be the opposite.