Salem, a town, was first settled in 1626.
Puritans arrived approximately 2 years later.
Puritans settled in Massachusetts because
they wanted to worship as they believed.
They wanted to purify the Church of
England and in England, the Puritans didn’t
have the power to purify the church so the
Puritan leaders decided to create their own
governments in Massachusetts. There rules
would be based on their religious ideas.
They hoped that their settlement would be
successful that the English would finally
give in, and accept their ideas and beliefs.
Puritan colonists on
their way to church.
The Puritans believed that God
chose a number of people to go to
heaven after they pass away. During
the lives of these people, they were
supposed to follow the teachings in
the Bible and although others may
not be part of this, they should still
act as if they were.
Puritans followed the
teachings of the Bible.
• Satan was believed to be real by the Puritans
and they thought that Satan tried to force people
to defy God and the teachings of the Bible.
• He was defined as an angel who defied God and
spread evil on Earth, or the devil.
• Puritans also believed that witches were the
servants of Satan(the devil) and that they helped
Satan carry out his evil work.
The picture shows Satan waking
his troops.
• are men and women who make deals with Satan.
• People who promise to worship Satan and work
for him.
• received special powers, such as the ability to
fly or cast harmful spells on their enemies
This is what a witch could
look like in 1626.
Puritan ministers stated that
women or females were more likely to
become witches. They thought this because
they are convinced that females were
morally delicate. Also, they stated that
females can be more provoked to shun God
and honor Satan instead.
As you all know, if there are witches, then there is
witchcraft. Now, let me give you a riddle. “If Satan
was an enemy of God, then what are witches? The
answer? Witches are also enemies of God, DUH!
In 1641, witchcraft became illegal due to a new
English law.
Colonial leaders frequently didn’t eliminate people
who were accused of being a witch because they
knew that people might unfaithfully accuse others as
witches. Also, discovering solid evidence that goes
against accused witches was difficult.
This picture shows a girl accused as
a witch. This girl looks creepy and I
would also think that she is a witch!
ACCUSED
WITCHES
Around January 20, 1692, an unknown disease struck
Abigail Williams and Betty Parris. A minister in the
community of theirs wrote that they looked as if they’d
been “bitten and pinched by invisible agents.” The arms
and backs of the girls had been twisted in unnatural ways.
WHAT WAS THE REASON TO THIS
UNKNOWN DISEASE?
THE ANSWER:
WITCHES
How about
this?
YES!
This type?
NOPE
A town doctor said that the girls were bewitched. The
girls blamed Tituba, their family’s slave for
bewitching them. Tituba did admit that she learned
quite a bit about witchcraft, such as spells from her
former master, but she swore that she wasn’t a witch.
To make matters worse for Tituba, two more girls
that show signs of being bewitched also accused
Tituba.
Tituba
This picture shows Tituba telling
witchcraft tales to children.
Another accused witch was Sarah
Good. Her neighbors claimed that she
was a witch that bewitched them and
their animals. (How nice of her
neighbors!) Although she was accused
of being a witch, she was not arrested.
Sarah Osborne was also
accused of being a witch. She
and her husband were in an
argument with Thomas
Putnam. Putnam’s daughter,
Ann, was an afflicted girl.
Sarah Osborne’s house
On February 29, 1692, Thomas Putnam and a couple
of other men formally accused Tituba, Sarah Good,
and Sarah Osborne of witchcraft.
The accused “witches” were then brought in to be
questioned.
Sarah Good opposed to the idea that she was a
witch and that she abused the afflicted girls.
Instead, she accused Sarah Osborne of witchcraft.
Sarah Osborne also opposed to the idea that she
was a witch and instead suggested that maybe
Satan made himself look identical to her when he
did his evil work.
The most astonishing answer from
the questioning came from Tituba.
She said that Satan came to her
and requested her to aid him. She
also stated how Satan sometimes
emerges as a dog, hog, and black
cats and rats. She also said that
she, Osborne, and Good had
signed a book in blood,
representing that they had made a
deal with Satan.
Tituba answer were so shocking that the news of her answers spread all
around Salem quickly.
People in the town of Salem began to say that they had seen ghost-like
images of Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba. The bewitched girls
also talked about seeing ghosts that flew around and tried to harm
them. They also started to accuse even more people of being witches.
Ann Putnam described how one woman often appeared around her
and afflicted pain towards her by pinching her and other various
methods.
80 years old Giles Corey,
was accused of being a witch. He
ignored the questioning and stood
silently. As a result, they punished
him by placing a wooden board on
his chest as he lay on the ground.
The officials would place stones
on the board continuously until
the weight killed Corey.
• Massachusetts Governor Phips called for a court to
decide if the accused people were actually witches in
late May.
• Witches were not allowed to speak in court because
of the English law. They were not trusted to speak the
truth since they didn’t worship God.
• Confessed witches avoided the death sentence and
instead, they had to stay in jail.
• Witches that do not admit to their crimes were
killed. This is why innocent people began to confess
to being witches. They didn’t want to be accused as
guilty and die. After some time though, some
confessed witches later say that they aren’t witches.
• Ministers were also accused.
AND
NOW
THE...
19 witches that were hanged on
Gallows Hill in 1692:
June 10- Bridget Bishop
1 wizard(male witch) that was pressed to
death because he didn’t say whether or not
he was guilty:
September 19- Giles Corey
July 19- Rebecca Nurse
Sarah Good
Susannah Martin
Elizabeth Howe
Sarah Wildes
Witches/wizards that died in prison:
August 19- George Burroughs
Martha Carrier
John Willard
George Jacobs, Sr.
John Proctor
September 22- Martha Corey
Mary Eastey
Ann Pudeator
Alice Parker
Mary Parker
Wilmott Redd
Margaret Scott
Samuel Wardwell
Sarah Osborne
Roger Toothaker
Lyndia Dustin
Ann Foster
ETC….
• Young children were also accused as witches.
The youngest ever accused was Dorcas Good, a 4
year old, and also daughter of Sarah Good.
• Tituba claimed Samuel Parris beat her so she
would admit being a witch.
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