Salem Witch Trials of 1692
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On a cold winter day in Salem Village, a wicked plan was being created. This was a plan that would later kill 37 people and leave hundreds of broken hearts. What was this plan? The year was 1692, a year in which Salem Village, a town in Massachusetts, was facing many problems. There were many people who didn't know what to do, especially when a sickness fell. This sickness was torture. It caused the victims to contort in pain, dive under furniture, and complain of fever. The cause of their symptoms may have been some combination of stress, asthma, guilt, child abuse, epilepsy, and delusional psychosis, but there was another theory, witchcraft. According to the Puritans of the Salem Witch Trials, the deaths of 37 people were acts of the devil but there is a more reasonable cause. The trials may have been an act of hatred among villagers...