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The cause of the mass Hysteria in Salem was due to the strong Calvinistic belief that Satan acted on the  world. They believed that Satan recruits witches and wizards to work for him. They also believed that people that were witches would have symptoms and a mark on them. This mark would be in a form of a third nipple. They would strip the accused person entirely in order to find this mark. Another reason for this hysteria was that it was a really hard time, which made it seem likely that Satan was active. There were also people confessing that they were witches giving it more credibility to earlier charges.

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Salem, Massachusetts was the where the Salem witch trials of 1692 took place. Salem is a historic coastal city. Much of the city's cultural identity reflects its role as the location of the infamous Salem witch trials of 1692, as featured in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Salem is located at the mouth of the Naumkeag River at the former site of an Indian village and trading center. Colonists settled the area in 1626. One of the most widely known aspects of Salem is its history of witchcraft allegations which started with Abigail Williams, Betty Parris, and their friends playing with a Venus glass (mirror) and egg.

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The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries, who wanted to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices, they thought that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and needed to become more protestant. Puritanism played a significant role in our History, especially during the Protectorate. Puritans did not like the Church of England's toleration of certain practices that were associated with the Roman Catholic Church.

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The beginning of Witchcraft leads back to when a young girl named Betty Paris became strangely ill and had very weird convulsions and other weird movements. Talk of witchcraft arose when other playmates of Betty Parris also became sick in the same way. This included 11-year-old Ann Putnam, and 17-year-old Marcy Lewis. These incidents were blamed on Tituba, a slave.

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Tituba was the first person to be accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials of 1692. She was a slave that was owned by Samuel Parris. Almost nothing is known of her life before she was enslaved and where she originated from. It is believed that she is a South American native. She became a Pivotal figure during the Salem Witch trials, because she was the first person to admit to practicing witchcraft and also made claims that Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne practiced the same witchcraft. She was then imprisoned but released later. Not a lot is known of her time outside of custody.