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4,388. 1692 Salem Massachusetts: a community in meltdown. (Humanity & United States of America & Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) Mankind: The Story of All of Us IX: Pioneers
93,477. During the year of 1692 in the North American colony of Massachusetts twenty men and women were executed. Their accusers were children. Their crime was witchcraft. The Salem Witch Trials stand as one of the darkest periods in early American history. What caused an entire village to go mad? (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) Unsolved History: Salem Witch Trials
93,478. By the end of 1692 one hundred and fifty people had been accused. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
93,479. Cases of convulsions and accused witches spread all over Essex Country. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
93,480. Whatever judicial system was in place failed ... The Salem Trials were one of the most shocking miscarriages of justice in all of American history. No law, no evidence, no justice. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
93,481. What could have sent the girls into such violent fits? (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
93,482. Ergot was first suggested as a culprit thirty years ago. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
93,483. The guilty met a brutal and final end. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
93,484. In 1692 witchcraft fever burns through puritan New England. It tears the small frontier village of Salem apart. As residents turn on friends and neighbours fearing the devil is among them. Nineteen are sentenced to death. Was it a case of mass hysteria, devil worship, or the act of just one man? (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) Salem Witch Trial Conspiracy
93,485. Salem Village: at its heart was the Parsonage – the home of the Reverend Samuel Parris and his family. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
93,486. Forty-nine-year-old Sarah Osborne is arrested on the same day as Sarah Good. Both women conform to the classic profile of those accused of being witches: Sarah Good is poor and unpopular; Osborne is scandalously remarried to her live-in servant. Most significantly neither woman has been attending church. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
93,487. Parris’s sermons now warn that the church is under attack ... Parris is warning of witches at work in Salem. Paving the way for the chaos to come. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
93,488. With an early winter approaching the minister has no fuel, no income, and is in danger of losing his home. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
93,489. Two girls under his roof start behaving oddly, setting the stage for the single largest witch-hunt in the English-speaking world. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
93,490. Tituba fits the classic witch profile ... She is the slave of Sam Parris. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
93,491. Tituba’s description of witchcraft reflects the description in English law. It’s strikingly at odds with her background as a Caribbean slave. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
93,492. They discover that the majority of those accusing witches are full members of the church loyal to Samuel Parris. Insiders. But when they plot those accused of witchcraft they revealed that the majority are not church members. Outsiders. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
93,493. Hysteria took hold as accusations started to fly. Panic spread through Essex County. In all one hundred and sixty-two people were arrested on charged of witchcraft. Five died in jail including Sarah Osborne. Nineteen died at the gallows ... Tituba never hanged; her confession saved her life. Throughout the trials not one person who confessed to witchcraft was executed. Parris held on to his job for four more years. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
93,504. Salem Massachusetts: rumours of violent acts of witchcraft against children begin to circulate. And accusations turn ugly. Some prominent citizens dare the unspeakable: they express doubt. They question the validity of the charges and of the witch-hunt itself. They too stand accused. Any who express doubt or defend their honour are suspected. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) Witch Hunter’s Bible
115,809. In 1692 mass hysteria and rampant paranoia swept the New England countryside. Citizens in the small village of Salem were being accused of casting spells, of consorting with the devil, of being witches. This persecution was a relatively new phenomenon in America. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) In Search of History s3e3: Salem With Trials, History 1998
115,810. Torturing suspected witches was justified in the eyes of the [English] law. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
115,811. Thousands of innocent lives were lost. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
115,812. The first witch trial in Massachusetts was not in Salem, it was in Charlestown in 1648. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.
115,813. On January 16th 1697 a day of public fasting was held in Salem to ask God’s forgiveness for past sins. (Witch & Miscarriages of Justice) ibid.