https://padlet.com/s_dylan_obryan/4786ivulxr10 Why the Witch Trials occurred. en-us 2019-12-12 14:14:34 UTC 2026-03-17 17:00:10 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png s_dylan_obryan https://padlet.com/s_dylan_obryan/4786ivulxr10/wish/423263061 I think the Salem Witch Trials happened because of someone fooling around and it evolved into an actual thing. I also think that some accusations were caused by emotion like feelings toward another like anger or just messing around. ]]> 2019-12-12 14:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/s_dylan_obryan/4786ivulxr10/wish/423263061 s_dylan_obryan https://padlet.com/s_dylan_obryan/4786ivulxr10/wish/423265015 I think a reason for why it started was foolishness. In document it states, "What are we to think of those persons who commenced and continued the accusations – the “afflicted children” and their associates?… It was perhaps their original design to gratify a love of notoriety or of mischief by creating excitement in their neighborhood…". By this they're saying that the kids were accusing people for fun and mischief. Like it is all fun and games until someone is hung and dead because someone playfully accused someone of false witchcraft. Then in the same document it says, " They soon, however, became intoxicated by the terrible success of their imposture, and were swept along by the frenzy they had occasioned…. Once or twice they were caught in their own snare; and nothing but the blindness of the bewildered community saved them from disgraceful exposure and well-deserved punishment. They appeared as prosecutors of every poor creature that was tried…. It is dreadful to reflect upon the enormity of their wickedness. There can be no doubt that they were great actors." In the end when it says they were great actors, they mean they would fake accuse someone and act like something was happening and witchcraft was taking place when they were just acting.

]]> 2019-12-12 14:18:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s_dylan_obryan/4786ivulxr10/wish/423265015 s_dylan_obryan https://padlet.com/s_dylan_obryan/4786ivulxr10/wish/423270876 Another reason I think was that there was anger or bad emotions that caused something to escalate and some falsely accused. I think this because in document K it says, "…on the 13th March, 1692, I saw the apparition of Goody (Rebecca) Nurse, and she did immediately afflict me, but I did not know her name then, though I knew where she used to sit in our meetinghouse. But since that, she hath grievously afflicted by biting, pinching, and pricking me, (and) urging me to write in her Book." that was an 11 year old girl and then in document L her mother states in the document, "…on the first day of June, 1692, the apparition of Rebekkah Nursedid fall upon me and almost choke me, and told me that now she was come out of prison she had power to afflict me, and that now she would afflict me all this day long and would kill me if she could, for she told me she killed Benjamin Holton and John Fuller and Rebekah Shepard….". This is likely to be untrue because most likely all the time a mother will take her daughters side or the daughter will take the mothers side. Then in document m it tells us, "To be sure, there were a number of reasons, on the conscious and “rational” level, why Ann Putnam (Sr.) may have resented and even feared Rebecca Nurse. Rebecca was from Topsfield, whose town authorities had for years been harassing the Putnam family by claiming that parts of their lands actually lay in Topsfield rather than in Salem Village. And her husband Francis had been involved during the 1670s in a protracted dispute with Nathaniel Putnam (Ann’s father-in-law) over some mutually bounded acreage." This tells us there seemed to be a rival between the accused person and the two accusers. Meaning that they could have lied and said that to get her busted.



]]> 2019-12-12 14:26:13 UTC https://padlet.com/s_dylan_obryan/4786ivulxr10/wish/423270876 s_dylan_obryan https://padlet.com/s_dylan_obryan/4786ivulxr10/wish/423279717 2019-12-12 14:36:44 UTC https://padlet.com/s_dylan_obryan/4786ivulxr10/wish/423279717 s_dylan_obryan https://padlet.com/s_dylan_obryan/4786ivulxr10/wish/423974534 2019-12-13 19:01:08 UTC https://padlet.com/s_dylan_obryan/4786ivulxr10/wish/423974534