Their trial could be said to be quite unfair. During the trial, Tibuba did admit to practicing witchcraft however, it is unclear whether or not Samuel Parris was persuading her to admit to it or not. The first person accused among the church was Martha Cory, who was accused of bewitching three peopl. Then Mrs. Soon, the entire village was accusing one another for being involved in witchcraft.
It was literally full blown chaos. At the end of it all, twenty people were hung, four died in jail, and hundreds more were sent to jail. A higher court was established in Salem to oversee the witch trials. Soon after Samuel Parris was banned from Salem and Mrs. Puttman apologizes to the people stating that the people she accused, were in fact innocent, and that everything was entirely a great delusion of Satan.
Now first reading the book in the introduction the author, Frances Hill, clearly feels obligated to share the stories of the Salem witch trials not for mere curiousity, but to show the world to cruelty of the human heart. Elizabeth would bite and pinch her. While reading this book, there was a huge interest being sparked for wanting to know the true and evil nature of humans, however Hill really did not execute the delivery properly.
At times the material felt unorganized and there was too much and too different information being stated at one time. In the beginnings of Chapter Four, there is a discussion of whether or not Tituba is guilty, but then the material trails off to the ideas of witchcraft within Western Europe. The material is interesting, but is kind of unnecessary.
However, even if there was a sense of unorganization with material, Hill was able to describe the trials and the people in ways that a novelist would do. Having read both fiction and nonfiction, I would believe that fiction is much easier to read, but Hill managed to take an informative nonfiction piece of work and make it appealing to even the laziest of readers. Some features of the site may not work correctly.
Save to Library Save. Create Alert Alert. Share This Paper. Methods Citations. Citation Type. Has PDF. Publication Type. More Filters. One of the stranger beliefs about witches in the heyday of the European witch hunts was that they had nearly complete control over the human imagination. Their power of praestigium, or illusion, … Expand.
Witch hunts and enlightenment: Harriet Martineau's critical reflections on Salem. Harriet Martineau's first and last articles on American society concerned the Salem Massachusetts witch hunts, trials and executions of She shared the Victorian fascination with psychological … Expand. Religiosity and the political economy of the Salem witch trials.
Abstract Salem Village, both before and through the witchcraft trials, was a religion-based community, allowing its minister to exert a level of political—economic control over its citizens. During … Expand. View 1 excerpt, cites background.
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