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I feel like document E helped the least with figuring out if this what happened, because just telling me who accused them does not help me it and I don't think it makes a difference if they are male or female or what age they are or even if they are married single, married, or widowed.

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In this image you can see that this man is being pressed to death because he was thought to be a witch.

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In this image the person is having a hysteria attack but back then people thought they were possessed

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“Thou shall not suffer a witch to live.” Exodus 22:18, King James version of the Bible.

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In document H it says, "anxiety over a magic that threatened to overpower them." So people were just having hysteria attacks, they were not possessed by witches.

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In document G it says, "there can be no doubt that they were great actors." Meaning no one was actually a witch they were just really good at pretending to be either possessed or casting "spells"

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The cause of the Salem witch trials was a couple of girls pretending to be "possessed". Then a few months later people started to actually believe them and started to accuse people of being "witches"

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In conclusion, none of the people that were accused were actually witches. A lot of them were just really good actors and just wanted to be well known. in the documents it shows that a lot of them were people faking it and making seem like they are witches.

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During the Salem witch trials pretty much anything could make you a "witch". For example if you had a birth mark then that would make you a "witch"

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In this map you can see that most of the "witches" were on the one side and most of the accusers are on the other.

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The Salem witch trials happened over a 3 month time period in Salem, Massachusetts in the year 1692. Where 20 people were killed (not including the people that died in prison). 19 were killed by hanging and 1 was pressed to death (14 of which were woman and 6 were men).