The Crucible Background

Research: Salem Witch Trails

Jocelyn MalaquiasJosue Mendez

Kate HoneymanAmanda Monterroso

Carmen Lopez

Period 6-Group 69/25/13

Speaker: Group 6 Occasion: Find information Audience: Mrs. Hong and Students Purpose: Find information about Arthur Miller’s

book The Crucible Subject: Salem Witch Trials Tone: Serious, Informative, detailed.

SOAPSTONE

The Salem witch trials occurred

in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693

Colonists believed that witches could control people’s thoughts

People thought that any inexplicable thing that happened was because of the witches.

The Beginning of a Horrific Era

WITCH TRAILS

Several centuries ago, Christians, and those of other religions, had a strong belief that the

Devil could give certain people known as witches the power to harm others in return

for their loyalty.

What caused the

Witch Trails? The outbreak of witch

accusations in the late 17th Century is one of the most well-known events of America's colonial period

Girls who first began accusing townspeople as witches, may have very well been "acting" in the court room.

156 people sat in prison

charged as witches 19 people sentenced to

death were hanged A prisoner was crushed

to death by stones

How Were The Witches Tortured?

Pilloried Burned Scalded Drawn Quartered Gibbeted Dragged Flayed Stretched Racked Booted Iron Maidened Or were just burned

alive

The suspected witches were tortured in terrible ways like:

The Puritan colonists

in Massachusetts at the time of the Salem witch panic believed that a witch was allied with the devil and did his dark work on earth. Basically, the human embodiment of evil.

The Colonists

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/brief-salem.html www.salemwitchmuseum.com/education/ http://coursesite.uhcl.edu/HSH/Whitec/xhist/SalemWitchTrials.htm www.history.com/topics/salem-witch-trials http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/topic/actionWin?

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