When colonist began to settle in Salem, Massachusetts they believed in a very pure life. Their faith in God was strong and they were willing to help just about anyone who found their way there. In the eyes of Puritans, they were the ideal lifestyle. Originally the Puritans were part of the Christian religion. However, as the church begun to change the Puritans did not wish to change with it. Instead they saw the church as corrupt and broken. Long term their goals were to purify the church and those who remained members of it but that was a long shot. King Charles was not willing to amuse their ideas and thus pushed them harder to the new world. The puritans built a whole new life for those of the same beliefs and of many others. They …show more content…
Through the remaining documents that have be collected histories claim that nearly 200 puritans were accused of being witches is Massachusetts. Of those 200 people about half were arrested but only 20 of them were prosecuted and executed. An even smaller list of names are recognizable to many people. One of the names that is most commonly noticed by people is Bridget Bishop. Of all those accused of being a practicing witch, her name had the most accusers attached. Her way of life was far from ideal from a Puritan standpoint. She drank, she cheated, and she was constantly the talk of the town. There were many reasons for someone to seek revenge on her and when the time came many people did. On June 10, 1962 Bridget was hung for her participation in witchcraft. Another largely famous name in the trials is John Proctor. He was not originally an accused person until shortly after his wife, Elizabeth Proctor, was accused. Johns name is large for those interested in the Salem trials because he was the first male to be accused of witchcraft in them. He was one of the only people who stood against the trials and refeed to the accusers as liars. He argues that they were seeking revenge and that they had not actually see any form of witchcraft taking place. Shortly after his attempts to prove that they were lying Proctor, his wife, and his house servant were all …show more content…
Around the same times as the hunts broke out so did large disease’s and famine. one of the largest disaster that took Europe for a spin at the time. The Black Plague was horrific and took the lives of nearly twenty five million Europeans. For those who were able to survive the plague it was not with out a cost. Most had to watch their loved ones suffer before passing and were unable to comfort them in any way. With so many people were dying already from the disease grief was high. Medication at the time was no wear near what it is in present times. The health statue of Europe was falling and the large masses of people who were dying began to raise horror in people. To correspond with that many people had little to no knowledge of cleanliness and how it can affect heath. It was rare for a shower or bath even once a week. Doctors’ visits were limited to those who could afford it and that was a slim few. Such luxuries and a bath were even more rare when it came to those where were homeless and out of the job. European job opportunities were very few if any. It was extremely hard for many to scrape by and survive. The economy was not all that it could have been and for a long time it seemed that it would never get better. Being that people of the time were
4/1/2017 Testimony against Accused Witch Bridget Bishop, 1692 Bridgett Bishop, a married, middle-aged woman, was the first colonist to be tried in the Salem Witch trials, found guilty and hung for practicing witchcraft in June 1692. Bishop was widowed twice and on her third marriage during the witch trials. According to Rebecca Beatrice Brooks, in her article Bridget Bishop: Witch or Easy Target, states that Bishop’s second husband was Thomas Oliver, who had children from a previous marriage. Bishop was no stranger to the courts.
“Bridget Bishop was the first person to be executed during the Salem witchcraft trials.” Even her own husband thought she was a witch. “In 1680, she was accused of witchcraft. This accusation could have been facilitated by Thomas' claim that ‘she was a bad wife . . .the
Many were trying to care more about the money and wealth than their puritan values. As the Protestant Reformation was happening in Europe,King Henry Vll started to split the church. Many know puritans wanted to purify its religion. During the puritan
Salem Witch Trials Twenty-five people were killed in the Salem Witch Trials including the nineteen who were hanged, one which was stoned and then those who died in prison awaiting trial. Even though these people weren’t witches, the villagers killed them on the accusations of some teens and a few adults. People just needed a scapegoat to explain away the negative impacts that were occurring in Salem Village in 1692. The victims of Salems prejudice were people as well.
In Puritan communities their lives were dedicated to their religion. They emphasized strict loyalty to biblical ideas and rejection of secular ones. In “ The Enlarged Salem Covenant of 1636” the
The Puritans were brave individuals who set out to alter the way their religion should be. Expanding to America was the way to escape the ills of the Catholic Church. Puritans felt that expanding was their right, and it was the only way to uphold God's word. The Roman Catholic Church was headed towards a path of destruction, and this was not what God wanted for his people. In Matthew 5:14, we find one of the major basis of the Puritan belief system.
Salem Witch Trials Twenty four people were killed during the Salem Witch Trail madness. How, you ask, did this happen (Unknown, Life In Salem 1692, 2013)? In 1692 a circle of young girls started a sport in the middle of this town. Witch Craft.
The Puritans were seeking freedom for themselves, but they didn't grasp the concept of acceptance. They came to America to find religious freedom but only for likeminded people. They
Salem Witch Trials The Salem Witch Trials began in colonial America in 1692. Many people were falsely accused of practicing witchcraft during the beginning of America. The Puritans of Salem, Massachusetts began to fear that if the colonists close to them could in fact be witches. Most accused people had no evidence against them and twenty people lost their lives to the Salem Witch Trials. (www.smithsonianmag.com) These Puritans came to America because they wanted to Purify the Church of England.
While the Puritans expressed their need of love and care for one another the exact opposite was show in Salem, Massachusetts. In June of 1692, Bridget Bishop was accused of bewitching and causing misery to the people in Salem. Her accusers blamed her for attending witch meetings, beating, choking, biting people, appearing to the people in a ghostly form, for odd behaviors in cattle, and the deteriorating health that caused deaths or fits among the children. It is obvious to see that the accusers used her as a scapegoat for the oddities they could not explain in their life. The judges accused Bridget of fabricating lies about her innocence in the trial when the accusers were quite painfully obvious of their deceit within their weak stories of
Is the United States still doing what they did back then? We now have different values and a new way of thinking. Over the years, our society has grown smarter. Although we still rely on outside assistance, we have progressed further than our Puritan half. The Puritans believed that the Bible was God 's true law, and that it provided a plan for living.
Many people involved in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 are mockingbirds in history, especially the innocent women who were executed for witchcraft. Bridget Bishop, the first convicted witch to be hanged, “was a widow who lived in Salem town. [She] had a bad reputation because she had been accused of witchcraft years before and had frequent run-ins with the law. ”(Brooks, “Bridget Bishop”) When Bridget’s husband passed away she began to behave strangely, a common trait in witches.
Eliza Davis Coach Hatfield U.S. History 8 February 2018 Conflict in The Salem Witch Trials The Salem Witch Trails itself was a very corrupted but significant event in history. These trials took place in a settlement called Salem, which was a part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony at that time. In January of 1692, a group of young girls mysteriously became ill and started acting out in abnormal ways. This group of girls was later known as the "afflicted girls".
In the year 1692 an incident that resulted to twenty people being executed and even an additional two hundred people being accused of witchcraft which most people know today as The Salem witch trials. These injustices had prevailed in the society and people would be randomly accused and randomly killed because people believed that witchcraft was a punishable crime like other. In the most bizarre events in the American history the Salem trials had entirely become rampant and even shaped the court decisions (Levin,1955). However, in the year 1933 common sense prevailed and most people argued that witchcraft would not be a punishable offense since supernatural forces could not be used as evidence in a court of law. Before the trials ended many
Bridget Bishop, a resident of Salem, was the first person to be tried as a witch. Surprisingly, Bishop was accused of witch craft by the highest number of witneses. After Bishop, more than two hundred people were tried of practicing witchcraft and twenty were executed. Many of these accusations arose from jealous, lower class members of society, especially towards women who had come into a great deal of land or wealth. Three young children by the names of Elizabeth, Abigail, and Ann were the first three people to be “harmed” by the witches.