Fact-checking – History of Magic in North America By J.K. Rowling by Mrs Hammel

hammel — 2018-11-01 10:12:12 UTC

"As No-Maj Europeans began to emigrate to the New World

hammel — 2018-11-01 10:12:24 UTC

"Some were driven by a sense of adventure"

hammel — 2018-11-01 10:12:38 UTC

"most were running away"

hammel — 2018-11-01 10:12:47 UTC

"the New World was to be a harsher environment"
to a country with little comfort

hammel — 2018-11-01 10:13:41 UTC

"conflict developed between the immigrants and the Native American population"

hammel — 2018-11-01 10:13:50 UTC

"their religious beliefs made them deeply intolerant of any trace of magic"

hammel — 2018-11-01 10:13:57 UTC

"famous Salem Witch Trials of 1692-93"

hammel — 2018-11-01 10:14:05 UTC

"a number of the dead were indeed witches"

hammel — 2018-11-01 10:14:59 UTC

"the crimes for which they had been arrested"

hammel — 2018-11-01 10:15:06 UTC

"general hysteria and bloodlust"

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hammel — 2018-11-01 10:15:50 UTC

Fact check in context (look at the text!) – Ask yourself: Is this a reference to history or is this fiction?
Summarize the true information
Give your sources and explain why they are trusthworthy

1This is true/real/fiction – many Europeans DID emigrate to America – as proven by the website …, which is a trustworthy / reliable / credible source because…

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hammel — 2018-11-01 10:19:04 UTC

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hammel — 2018-12-05 06:03:57 UTC

Fact-checking

2018-12-05 11:59:57 UTC

This is true, many europeans emigrated to America in the 17th century, as proven by an article in The Telegraph, a reliable source as it is a reknown British newspaper.

However, No-Majs aren’t “real”.

Students

2018-12-05 12:02:11 UTC

everybody

2018-12-11 23:03:25 UTC

This is accurate, the trial started during the spring of 1692 and ended in early 1693 when May Phips (the governor) had pardoned and released all those in prison on witchcraft charges.

However the trial took another ~~look~~ in the early 17’ when the court declared the trials unlawful.

Also this event is still recognized with a bill restoring the rights and good names of those accused and a day of fasting for the tragedy of the Salem witch trials.

We can affirm theses with the help of history.com updated in August 28, 2018 on the article "Salem Witch Trials" and smithsonianmag.com which is an online journal.

2nd source

2018-12-11 23:06:00 UTC

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Jessica, Geoffrey

2018-12-12 10:11:24 UTC

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The 2nd website

2018-12-12 10:38:32 UTC

2018-12-12 10:46:18 UTC

It’s partly true because we all know that witches don’t exist but on the other side people were thinking that they were, so it’s possible that there were some fear for people considered to be using witchcraft, as proven by an article in the Daily Beast , an American website created by the journalist Tina Brown (former journalist of New Yorker )

2018-12-12 10:49:21 UTC

Sarah, Divine

2018-12-12 10:49:40 UTC

Tristan, Asma & Paula

2018-12-12 10:52:40 UTC

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hammel — 2018-12-12 11:08:11 UTC

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2018-12-12 11:18:51 UTC

Anne, Houda, Manar

2018-12-12 11:20:00 UTC

This is true. According to the Bible, witchcraft was seen to be a big offense for religion. Wizards were kings of Babylon. They were also associated with idolatry. Christians religion blame any pratices of satanic and magic.

Guilian

2018-12-12 11:20:26 UTC

It's true, some people were pressed to death because he refused to answer an indictment like Giles Corey.
Puritanism was the heart of the subject.

2018-12-12 11:20:27 UTC

Clara, Alexandre & Clara-Lucia

2018-12-12 11:23:44 UTC

Benjamin, Matthieu

2018-12-12 11:24:57 UTC

Thomas, Samir & Hugo

2018-12-12 11:25:34 UTC

This is true because on one side missionaries that were emigrating to the USA were very violent, known to beat native Americans and using different kind of punishments for civil offenses.
On the other side native Americans were very hostile to immigrants due to technological and cultural differences.
There were mutual feelings of superiority and nationalistic rivalries.

2018-12-12 11:27:11 UTC

This website is trustworthy because there is at the bottom a means to contact the author and a link to learn more about the website and his author (Rabbi Geoffrey Dennis is a rabbi of Congregation Kol Ami in Flower Mound, TX. He is also speaker in Kabbalah and rabbinic literature at the University of North Texas.)

Sources

2018-12-12 11:28:15 UTC

Our sources are trustworthy because the first one comes from a great and known universitary encyclopedia edited since the 18th century.
The other one comes from an international American TV channel.

2018-12-12 11:28:50 UTC

This is true, many people were driven by sense of adventure- as proven by the Telegraph.
In the 17th-century many people had to leave their country and some of them were called by the sense of adventure. A lot of people went to United State for a new life. In the article we see the adventures of famous travel people.

Eléa Emma Alexandre T

2018-12-12 11:32:08 UTC

This is true, in 1692/1693 there was the Salem witch trials which took place in Salem in the province of Massachusetts. There were witch hunts where between 140 and 150 people (men and women) were arrested for witchcraft and particulary of mob mentality, mass hysteria and scapegoating.
Arrested for witchcraft:
Arthur Abbott, Mary Barker and William Barker, family Bishop...

We can affirm these with the help of this website:
http://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-salem-witch-trials/
Which was update in August, 19 in 2015 by Rebecca Beatrice Brooks, who is a writer and publisher of this blog.

2018-12-12 11:32:13 UTC

2018-12-12 11:41:37 UTC

It's true , in 1692-93 in the Salem Trials many people where accused without any hint and that was spread troughout the population who at end just wanted to kill the witches.

2018-12-12 11:43:01 UTC

~~In reality , skin walkers are only part of Navajo lore, not any of the other hundreds of tribes. Rowling lumped a complex tapestry of beliefs into a single story, and used "medicine man"~~ stereotypes by writing things like "The Native American wizarding community
was particularly gifted in animal and plant magic."

2018-12-12 11:44:36 UTC

this source is clean because it's from a web newspaper

2018-12-12 11:44:57 UTC

It's ~~true~~, a number of the dead were indeed witches, as proven by the site "From April 1661-Autumn 1662, 600 witches were found - 100 were executed[...]
Although witch persecutions were not really in effect until 1563, the use of witchcraft had been deemed as heresy by Pope Innocent VIII in 1484. From then until about 1750, roughly 200,000 witches were tortured, burnt, and hung across Western Europe. "