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Salem Witch Trails
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Salem Witch Trials
by: Emilee Collins
How did the Witch Trials Start
The Witch Trials First began when a group of girls Sarah Good, Sarah Osbourne and Tituba were claimed to be possessed by the devil and after that many others were accused along with them
How the Witch Trials Started
What were the Salem Witch Trials
The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts from February 1692 to May 1693. More than two hundred people were charged. Thirty were found guilty, nineteen of them executed by hanging
What were the Salem Witch Trials
Who was Elisabeth Hubbard
Elisabeth Hubbard was a girl who around 1692 accussed many men and women of afflicting her with a sickness. Of those accused and/or testified against by Hubbard, a total of 15 were executed, one died in prison and one was tortured to death for refusing to continue his trial
Elisabeth Hubbard
Who was William Phips
William Phips was a Governer back in 1692. He stopped the use of the printing press during the witch trials because he didn't want to start the needless disputes of the people he also ended the witch trials on October 29th 1692.
William
Phips
Who was Dorothy Good
Dorothy Good was a 4yr old girl who was accused of witch craft. She was taken in a while after her mother Sarah Good and was interrogated for two weeks. She was so tired and worn out that she gave in a told them what they wanted to hear, that her mom was a witch, that she worked with the devil and her mom had given her a snake once and it had bitten her. then she died sometime after 1721.
Dorothy Good
The First Witch Execution
The first witch execution was Bridget Bishop on June 10, 1692. Bridget was a women who didn't act puritan like, she was often found in the tavern and has had multiple marriages. To avoid getting hangged she gave up her good name in the community, then was founded guilty by many towns people.
The First Execution
"Interesting" Facts
- No One Was Burned at the Stake
- Most Accusers Were Girls Under Age 20
- Witch Tests Were Impossible to Pass
- The Youngest Accused Witch Was Four Years Old
- Dorothy Good had a sister named Mercy who died as an infant in prison
"Interesting" Facts
Sources
- historyofmassachusetts.org
- salem.lib.virginia.edu william phips letter to William Blathwayt
- salem.org
- salem trial records