What was the Issue with the Witch Hunt

Salem Witch Trials



Why Was The Salem Witch Trials A Poblem

        The girls have only started this cycle, what kept it going was the hysteria that people put. Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborn were the first three accused. Tituba was accused because she told the girls stories of omens, voodoo, and witchcraft from her native folklore. Sarah Good was accused because she was a beggar and a social misfit, and Sarah Osborn was accused of witchcraft because she had not attended the church in over a year. These suspects were brought in front of magistrates Jonathan Corwin and John Hathorne on March 1, 1692, in Ingersoll's tavern. People around town also gathered there. Other villagers came forward to offer stories of these people when they seemed to act like witches. The trail was about to drop and free these women, but Tituba came forward and admitted to being a witch and claimed that there are more of us in the community. This turned the community into chaos. Tituba was imprisoned for telling the truth, but the other two were hung with others who were accused later on. Because of what Tituba said the whole town was on a witch hunt. Many more who were accused admitted to being witches so they don’t die. All these really motivate people to get all the witches, and people were being imprisoned every day! Even little kids were imprisoned! Dorthy Good was the youngest person to be imprisoned at age five! What is more unfair is that the way the witches were killed. Witches were hung, burned, drowned, stoned and pressed to death, this is very cruel for people that did nothing. An elderly man over 80 years of age was pressed to death for not submitting to the trail. By the end of Salem witch trails between 140 and 150 people were arrested and 20 were executed. More still died in the prison. Someone had to put a stop to this madness.