SALEM WITCH TRIALS

LEADING UP TO THE TRIALS

• Villagers in salem got sick and certain people suspected witchcraft was the cause
• Several young girls were having fits of screaming and contortions and blamed it on bewitching.

THE WHO

• Those girls blamed several women for the bewitching, and those women plea bargained by confessing and implicating other women in the crimes.
• The local magistrates carried out the sentences

THE OUTCOMES

• People were burned, drowned, stoned, hanged, and one died in prison
• People accused of witchcraft had little to no chance of appeals

ALSO

• Teenage girls are the root of all evil