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How The Hysteria Started The Witch Trials

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How The Hysteria Started The Witch Trials

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One example of some foreign influences that helped spread panic of witches is the Tituba. Some teenagers at the time liked to visit and explore due to boredom, and then encountered Tituba. Here with some tribes like to share some of their culture which involve showing "images and visions" in smoke or water. Some of the teenagers panicked after this and spread rumors of witch craft and curses. More reports and rumors like this led to over-reactions like people believed of being scratched, and witches being in their homes. All of this chaos and attacks from tribes led to the belief that all of the natives in the lands are Devils. Which then escalated quickly with the witch trials.

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The religious believers behind most of the witch trials were apologizing to all of the innocents that had died. The people who had lied about being a witch, those titles were lifted decades later and got to live normal lives for the rest of their lives. Some people believed that people were faking, and evidence has shown that people really did think there were witches. Some believe that people overreacted due to boredom, which led to crazy beliefs and thoughts. Although more evidence shows that the old reports have had some strange thing in them. Some reports from the trials involved women with strange marks, cuts, witches making changes in the environment around them in court rooms, and many more crazy and unnatural things.

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During the chaos of the fear of impostors, spies, witches, Satan workers, and devils in their mist, there were witch trials. In these trials were many innocents and falsely accused people were tested for being a witch or not. This fear of imposters or witches among them led to lots of deaths. (Pun not intended) Some of the tests involved using needles to see if the entity or person being accused can feel pain, seeing if the person floats on holy water, and many more crazy made up things were tested. So many people died in these trials that people ended up confessing of "being a witch" in order to avoid the trials, so they could live.

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John Calvin is a Christian believer that broke away from the Christians. The beliefs of Calvinism involves the fate of people and their after-lives. The belief is that the fate of someone is already chosen the second they are born, and there is nothing that can change this "fate". The person is either chosen or not chosen, heaven or hell. This belief affected some people behavior to always act as if already chosen, because they don't want to go to hell. The fear of not being chosen is what most believers have to live with.

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These so called Puritans during the Puritanism movement were very religious and simple people. They chose to spread their culture due to the dislikes of the Catholic churches, and with the hopes of creating a utopia. They were leaning more towards to having their culture or churches above the government. The Puritans were very simple, they spoke simple, lived simple, and the design behind their architecture is simple. These Puritan's beliefs were spread through male preachers, and they wanted a nation of believers.