https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4 en-us 2019-12-11 16:48:29 UTC 2025-04-07 00:31:01 UTC hello@padlet.com s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/422834682 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). ]]> 2019-12-11 16:56:52 UTC https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/422834682 s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/423211345 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.]]> 2019-12-12 12:43:01 UTC https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/423211345 s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/423833049 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"]]> 2019-12-13 15:09:40 UTC https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/423833049 s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/423840620 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. ]]> 2019-12-13 15:21:56 UTC https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/423840620 s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/423856617 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"]]> 2019-12-13 15:47:00 UTC https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/423856617 s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/423883158 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"

]]> 2019-12-13 16:30:56 UTC https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/423883158 s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/423886814 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.

]]> 2019-12-13 16:37:05 UTC https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/423886814 s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/423889216 “Thou shall not suffer a witch to live.” Exodus 22:18, King James version of the Bible.]]> 2019-12-13 16:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/423889216 s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/423900302 In this image the person is having a hysteria attack but back then people thought they were possessed ]]> 2019-12-13 16:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/423900302 s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/424216169 In this image you can see that this man is being pressed to death because he was thought to be a witch. ]]> 2019-12-15 02:19:11 UTC https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/424216169 s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/424331871 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. ]]> 2019-12-15 21:44:09 UTC https://padlet.com/s_rebecca_welsh_scafidi/dhbfbd4fwzy4/wish/424331871