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A day of fasting and soul-searching was given for the innocent souls who were sacrificed in the Salem Witch Trials. In 1702, the trials became banned and in 1711 a bill was passed to give money to the deceased heir as reparations. After this great tragedy in Salem, many were fascinated by the idea of witches and created tales of witchcraft. A famously known tale was written by Arthur Miller it is known as the Crucible. This playwright expressed that the witch trials had been created by the McCarthyism paranoia in the 1950s.

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Witch Trials started to become a common occurrence and attracted spectators. The crowd of specators in the court rooms hissed and heckled at innocent people suspected of witchcraft. A confession of a witch was enough to hang an innocent soul. As innocent people were hung in the gallows the crowd screamed at them with hate and disgust and rejoiced once they were hung. The victims died a slow and painful death among people who they use to call neighbors.

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Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne Beginnings as Witch Hunters

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Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne Beginnings as Witch Hunters

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The Purtians beliefs combined with the stresses of ongoing warfare created a segway for witch hunting to be introduced. A man named Matthew Hopkins would be known in history for being a vicious witch hunter devoted to his work. On Friday 21st of March, 1645, a group of women were sent to find a wtiches mark on the body of an eldery women called Elizabeth Clarke. Conviction could only happen if the victim had confessed to being in cahoots with the Devil. Elizabeth was sleep deprived and beaten by these women, a form of torture that was legal at the time. After 3 days of non- stop stravation, brutalization, and sleep deprivation Elizabeth couldn't take it anymore she confessed to being a witch. Elizabeth would be the first victim of Hopkins inhumanine methods of witch hunting. Elizabeth said that she was in a coven of witches and these words would condem hundreds to the same fate as herself.

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Purtains were deeply afriad that the Devil was trying to harm them with witches so as a result many innocent people were totured and put to death for being accused as a witch. The smallest thing in today world such as gossip and superstition would be the cause for the deaths of thousands. As superstition grew it was believed that witches had a mark given to them by the Devil. The accused were strip down naked to check if they had any mark indicating to be the Devil work. Another test to prove someone as a witch was to If someone claimed you as a witch you had two opinions die immediately or give information and delay your enviable death.

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The Malleus Maleficarum better known as the Hammer of the Witches was written by a German Domican monk named Henrich Kramer. Kramer's sole purpose in this book was to claim that witches existed and coexisted in our daily lives and that they worked for the devil. It became a manual to track down and kill people who were claimed to be witches. His book infleunced the idea that witches were the cause of all evil in our world for the purpose of serving the Devil and causing pain and suffering to humankind. Malleus was posed as the answer and was backuped with evidence that the church supported this belief in witches. Because it seemed that the church agreed with this anomaly thousands upon thousands died and were exected for supsection of being a witch.