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... Most of Puritans lived in Salem town. ... Puritan code of conformity shows that the first women to be accused of witchcraft in Salem were seen as different and as social outcasts, Tituba, a slave, Sarah Good, a homeless, and Sarah Osborne, a sickly old women who married her servant. ... Thus, witchcraft was considered a sin because it denied God’s superiority, and crime because the witch could call up the Devil in his/her shape to perform cruel acts against others.”(Salem Witchcraft) Therefore, in any case when witchcraft was suspected, it was important that it was investigated thoroughly and tormentors identified and judged. “At the center of the tragedy in 1692 Salem were real people the “bewitched young girls, town leaders who fanned the hysteria, innocent men and women accused of witchcraft. Whether they helped create the witch hunt or were at the mercy of the events, together these people made up a community rapped in jealousy, ego, fear, and superstition. ... ”(Salem Witchcraft) Salem witchcraft trials were trials that resulted from the largest witch hunt in American history. The trials were held in 1692 in Salem, a town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. ... The Salem trials resulted in the last witchcraft executions in America. ... In the summer of 1692, ignorance and fear ruled over Puritan Salem, Massachusetts. Several men and women stood trial for witchcraft. ... By late September, 19 men and woman had been hanged on Gallows Hill, an eighty year old man pressed to death under stones for refusing a trial, five more accused had died in jail, but none of the executed had confessed to witchcraft. ... February 25, when Tituba baked the witch cake, and February 29, when arrest warrants were issued against Tituba and two other women, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams named their afflictors and the witch hunt began.
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