https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc The horrors of Salem Village in 1692-1693, where the village was on the hunt of the "Children of Satan". But they only tortured and murdered innocent members of their community. en-us 2020-11-16 21:12:56 UTC 2025-11-03 05:48:14 UTC hello@padlet.com kamille4 https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929338253 in 1692, lead to the torture, murder and imprisonment of many residents of Salem Village. The fire that fueled that flame was teenage boredom, hysteria and religion. ]]> 2020-11-16 21:15:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929338253 kamille4 https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929341188 All semester we learned about torture and how false confessions can be made. In the Salem Witch trials torture lead to a domino affect of others to be tortured and punished for crimes not committed. This went on for a year of one person getting tortured only to be free once blame and information was put on someone else. Showing once again that torture is not an effective or ethical way to get information because if someone is desperate to stop the pain anything could come out of their mouths. ]]> 2020-11-16 21:16:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929341188 kamille4 https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929344776 In the Witch Trials many tests were done to see if a person was a witch. Back then they believed that these were mere insurances to make sure a person was not posing as a regular person. But in reality some of these test were horrific acts of torture. ]]> 2020-11-16 21:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929344776 kamille4 https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929347674 Another example is the "Swimming test" where they would drag the suspected Witch to a body of water and if they sank they were not a witch. This would lead to many accidental drownings. This test is derived from "trial by water" which was banned in the Middle Ages by many European countries due to the way it presented like torture and many innocent deaths.]]> 2020-11-16 21:18:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929347674 kamille4 https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929351123 For Example, the pricking and scratching test is when they would pick and stab on a person skin until the flesh would break. If the person was to bleed then the person was not a witch.If they healed too quickly then they would be a witch or if they kept stabbing and pricking until they found an area that produced witch like results the person would be guilty.]]> 2020-11-16 21:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929351123 kamille4 https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929354025 Used still to this day a common form of getting information was keeping the person being interrogated awake for as long as possible. They would as the person many questions and not let them sleep until they say what was wanted to hear. ]]> 2020-11-16 21:20:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929354025 kamille4 https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929373238 2020-11-16 21:27:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929373238 kamille4 https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929376961 There is a document that has been going around being auctioned as the deposition of Mary Daniels. This document is what put Margaret Scott to death as a witch. The word of one leads to the downfall of another.]]> 2020-11-16 21:28:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929376961 kamille4 https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929383332 " I was taken very ill again all over & felt a great pricking in ye soles of my feet, and after a while I saw apparently the shape of Margret Scott, who, as I was sitting in a chair by ye fire pulled me with ye chair, down backward to ye ground, and tormented and pinched me very much, and I saw her go away at ye door, in which fit I was dumb and so continued till ye next morning, finding a great load and heaviness upon my tongue …

There appeared to me the shape of some woman, who seemed to look and speak most fiercely and angrily, and beat, pinch’d and afflicted me very sorely telling me I should not have said so, or told such things & to yt purpose … In some of ye fits yt I had afterwards, I was senseless and knew not yt I saw who it was yt afflicted me. In one fitt (upon ye beginning it) I thought I saw Goodw Jackson, and widow Scott come walking into the chamber with yr staves, one of ym came & sat upon me so yt I could not stir … In another fitt I saw ye appearance of sd Scott in ye room who afflicted me, and being speechless, I continued so, untill I went to ye sd Scott, who taking me by ye hand, I had ye liberty of speech again as formerly. The last fitt I had was upon ye last Sabbth day, in which I saw ye shapes of four women or five, of whom widow Scott was one, ye rest I knew not, nor knew yt any did hurt me, unless sd widow Scott."

]]> 2020-11-16 21:30:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929383332 kamille4 https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929388596 When actions like this occur no matter what time period it makes an impact like a drop in an ocean. it ripples through time and history. The trials shined a light in the criminal justice system and points the flaws we have in our current system to this day.In the link attached see the legacy of the trials today. ]]> 2020-11-16 21:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929388596 kamille4 https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929417954 Through my time studying the Salem Witch Trials it is clear to see that this was a mess from beginning to end. Family turned on each other, husbands and wives suspicious of each other. They say that they were trying to find evil but in reality the actions to find it were the evil. The torture, the bloodshed and the hysteria made this so much worse. Now to say this is not the case today would be a lie. The behaviors that they had were not so different than ours today. Today people point fingers and attack each other on such little things. The main difference is we have the internet to carry those messages. We have wealthy white men in charge of the fate of the country, like how the fate of the women in Salem was in the hands white wealthy men. The world has changed but   Witch Trials was not a one time tragic event it continued in different forms of oppression of women every day. ]]> 2020-11-16 21:42:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929417954 kamille4 https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929431781 This shows that in this time they placed blame on eachother out of fear that they will get blame themselves. By reporting a witch you could not be a witch. The woman Mary Daniels explained how she was being tortured for information and passed on the name of other women. That "confession" led to the untimely death of the innocent women Margaret Scott.]]> 2020-11-16 21:47:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929431781 kamille4 https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929466669 2020-11-16 22:00:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929466669 kamille4 https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929468670 2020-11-16 22:01:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929468670 kamille4 https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929524876 In every issue there is always a scapegoat to put all the blame on. Like many times it was pushed on a minority group member. In the story of the Salem Witch Trials that remains true. A slave named Tituba was said to have started out all the magic in Salem]]> 2020-11-16 22:25:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929524876 kamille4 https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929536959 2020-11-16 22:31:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929536959 kamille4 https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929553258 Towards the end of our semester we have talked about torture and the African American Experience. Now no one ever thinks that there could ever be a connection between that and this event. But when deeply looking you see that this is all blamed on a person of color. Tituba was an average slave who told fictional stories to the children she watched and told stories of magic to entertain them. But the whole event escalated and she was blamed. To survive she had to put the blame on others. Which is an action many did back then. But even in other readings of slavery we see this again. In the Narrative of William Brown a Fugitive Slave, in the passage where he passes a whipping to someone else to avoid the torture. Even in modern day torture is given to people of color and they respond like everyone does taking it or passing it along. Like it is seen in the Chicago Black Sites. Police will take in members of the African American community and the torture does not end after they are released. It continues on to the next person until everyone has fear instilled in them. Like everyone in Salem. ]]> 2020-11-16 22:39:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929553258 kamille4 https://padlet.com/kamille4/me0q8vem2yu6pdsc/wish/929582086 https://blog.oup.com/2016/11/salem-witch-trials-significance/

https://www.history.com/news/7-bizarre-witch-trial-tests

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/salems-problem-not-witches-but-torture_b_58901334e4b080b3dad6fb09

https://www.history.com/news/salem-witch-trials-first-accused-woman-slave

https://www.history.com/news/read-the-document-that-condemned-a-woman-to-death-in-the-salem-witch-trials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVd8kuufBhM



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