By Tim Stewart

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The Accused

The Trials

The Punishme

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In present times, nothing huge like this has happened, but today if you were accused of being a witch, the ACCUSERS would be thought crazy. I’m not sure what to put

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The accused

The accused were Mostly women who lived Alone or with very fewPeople, were loners andSeemed spiteful. There were also men however, and I want to

share with you some individual cases.

Rebecca Nurse John Proctor Cotton Mather

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Rebecca Nurse

Rebecca moved to salem in 1640, and she and her family got into a dispute with a family for land. She was accused of witchcraft and put to death by hanging.

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John Proctor

John Proctor was a wealthy farmer in salem during the trials. He was accused because he was against the trials, and people thought he must be guilty himself. He was sentenced to death by chocolate. (Hanging, just kidding!)

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Cotton Mather

He played a role in witchcraft being accused widespread. He diagnosed a young girl who was having fits of hysteria with being possessed, and that there was going to need to be an exorcism.

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The Trials

How they were found guilty

The accusers

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The accusers

The accusers were young girls who said that they saw dark figures that were hurting them, or that the witch themselves did it.

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How they were proven guilty

They were never really proven, but The young girls who accused flipped out and had fits on the floor and said that the “witch” was tormenting her.

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The Punishments

Hanging

Imprisonment

Crushing

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Crushing

They would place you on the ground and pile stones onto you and left you there and every day added more weight. John Pactor was the only one ever during the witch trials to be crushed. His famous last words were “More Weight.”

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Imprisonment

Obviously, you were put into jail, and if you tried to escape, you would be cobbled or put to death.

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hanging

They would tie a rope to a tree, tie a noose, and put the “witches” head into the loop, and throw them out of the tree.

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Goodbye!!!

Thanks for checking this out!

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