The Salem Witch Trials
By: ADDYSYN ANDIS
Some of you may know the infamous Salem Witch Trials. Whether you know it or not I’m here to tell you about it. The Salem Witch Trials took place in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (now Danvers, Massachusetts). It started on February 26, 1692, and ended on September 22, 1693.
The Salem Witch Trials were cruel torture that they force upon the condemned. One day two kids, named Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Parris, started acting strange. They were having fits, spazzing out, twitching, and doing all other kinds of strange things. They turned to three innocent people and accused them of putting spells on them.
The three accused were: Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborn. Sarah Good was pregnant. Tituba was Samuel Parris's slave. Sarah Osborn an early American Protestant and Evangelical writer. Tituba confessed to doing witchcraft and stated, ¨The devil, came to me and said ´serve me´¨ She then said that she had signed the ´Devils Book.´ She was let go. On the other hand, Sarah Osborn and Sarah Good insisted that they were innocent. Their attempts were unsuccessful, and they were hung.
There were other victims of this tragedy. In total there were 200 accused. Out of those 200, 30 were executed. They once accused a dog. Dogs used to be closely associated with the devil. Unfortunately, this leads to the dog’s execution. They believed that the devil could shapeshift and that this time he shapeshifted into a dog. After the dog’s execution, the people of Salem came to realize that the dog wasn’t the devil in disguise.
One of our very own students in EJHS went to Salem.
Her name is Maggie. She stated, ¨When I went there were little witches everywhere and fake witches on the light posts they had ropes around their necks.¨
