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During the 17th century witchcraft was viewed as something evil. Witchcraft at that time wasn't common, but many people believed that it had something to do with the devil.
The Trials finally ended in 1692 after the governor of the colony declared to stop the trials after his wife was being accused of witchcraft and then people of the colony started to doubt that the girls were ever under the control of the devil.
Before 1692 only 12 people in all of New England had been executed for witchcraft.
During the Salem Witch Trials, 156 people were formally charged, 47 confessions, 2 dog executions and 19 human executions during the witch trials.
A special court was made in Salem to hear the cases. The first convicted witch was Bridget Bishop who was hung June 1692. 18 others were also accused and hung at Salem’s Gallows Hill for the crime of witchcraft. An estimated 150 more men, women, and children were accused over the next several months.
In many trials the verdict was guilty and they would be publicly hung or thrown in jails. The trials also caused the spread of hysteria.
The trials began in 1692 when a group of younger girls claimed to be possessed by the devil, in Salem Village Massachusetts. They also accused several local women of witchcraft creating a wave of panic throughout Massachusetts. Tituba was accused of being a witch and testified that she saw the names of other people in the “Devil’s book”. The people in Salem began to wonder who the other names were and began to mistrust one another.
At times they were literally hunted. They faced bias court cases and the convicted were hung or put to death by pressing.
In my opinion, The Salem Witch Trials got out of control because people would just accused others without knowing if they were doing any witchcraft.