The salem wichcraft trials

1. The Salem wichcraft Trials
(1692)

2. INDEX
1.Colonial history of United States
1.1. The Puritans
2.The history of the Salem witchcraft
3.The Trials
3.1. Sentences
4. How did it finish?
5. Something interesting

4. Colonial history of United States

6. The Puritans

7. •The Puritans were a group of English
Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries,
including, but not limited to, English Calvinists.

8. The history of the Salem witchcraft

9. • Samuel Parris, an Antilles’
reverend, arrived to Salem’s
village with his dauther Elisabeth
and his nephew Abigail.

10. • After this, Parris
investigated the situation
and he discovered that his
daughter and his nephew
participated in the rites of
Tituba. And also that she
cooked a cake with rye and
children’s urine.

11. The Trials

12. • People could charge to anyone that they
thought being a witch, so this make that
people said that everyone was a witch. But
people believed in the girls (Elizabeth and
Abigail) when they said that someone was a
witch because they were mute, felt down to
the floor and writhed.

13. Sentences

14. • After her women and mans were hanged and
the most famous were: George Burroghs,
Alice and Mary Parker, Martha Cory, Giles
Cory, Martha Carrier, John Williard, George
Jacobs, Margaret Scott, Ann Pudeator… 200
people were accused of being a witch, 20
were hanged, 200 were captured.

15. How did it finish?

16. • Williams Pipps, the government of Salem,
decided to break up the court and he didn’t
admit the existence of ghost for accuse a
person of being a witch.

17. Something interesting
• In Salem there is a museum about witches.
• There are written some books about the
Salem witches and there are too some films.