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Salem witch trials and historical analysis
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The Case of Sarah and Dorcas Good “You are a liar. I am no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you take away my life God will give you blood to drink.” Those were Sarah Good’s last words before she was hung on Tuesday July 19, 1692. Sarah was just one of the victims of the Salem Witch trials, but we don’t know if these accusations are true. All we know is that people were hung with some pretty pesare motives.
Sarah Good was born into a wealthy family. She married a wealthy guy but when her father died her husband divorced her and took everything she had. Later on she married a market worker named William Good. He was not rich. So Sarah spent most of her days begging for money on the streets. She would curse anyone who did not give her anything. This soon would cause people to accuse her of witchcraft. Her daughter Dorcas was called to testify against her mom. Dorcas said that her mother was teaching her. Dorcas was only four at the time. Her mother was sentenced to be hung and Dorcas had to stay in jail until her father could pay the fine. Sarah was pregnant at the time so her execution was pushed back until the baby was born, the baby died. Sarah was hung, but Dorcas had now developed a mental disease and her father had to take care of her for the rest of her life.
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I probably would’ve done the exact same thing.If Sarah was here today and Dorcas Sarah wouldn’t have died and Dorcas could’ve grown up “normal”. Sarah would have a lot more job opportunities and her life would be completely different. She wouldn’t lose her house to her husband. Sarah wouldn’t be begging. If Sarah was a witch she can’t go to jail or be hung because nobody believes it’s real. Maybe if Sarah lived in Africa or Spain she would’ve escaped death. Sarah would not have the same background she would be a totally different person but alive and
The movie Three Sovereigns for Sarah was about the Salem Witch Trials and what happen during it. The Salem Witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecution of people who were accused of witchcraft. I'm going to be talking about the religion, superstition, the victims, the afflicted girls, and some of the executions. The trials were not right what so ever but was a very important part of history.
The Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts can be considered a horrendous period in American history, yet is also viewed as the turning point in what was considered acceptable in a contemporary society. In a documentation of a trial against a woman named Sarah Good, the reader is able to see the way in which such an accusation was treated and how society as a whole reacted to such a claim. Sarah Good fell victim to the witchcraft hysteria because she was different, and that fear of her divergence from the Puritan lifestyle led to her eventual demise.
The Salem Witch Trials occurred from 1692 to 1693. When two girls, aged 9 and 11, started having strange and peculiar fits, the Puritans believed that the cause of these actions was the work of the devil. The children accused three women of afflicting them: Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne. Tituba was a Caribbean slave owned by the Parris family. Sarah Good was a homeless woman. Sarah Osborne was a poor elderly woman. Sarah Osborne and Sarah Good pleaded innocent. Tituba admitted, “The Devil came to me and bid me serve him.” She described seeing red cats, yellow birds, black dogs, and a black man who asked her to sign his “book”. She confessed to signing the book. All three wo...
The Salem witch trials of 1692 were one of the bloodiest witch-hunts in America colonial history. The event started in the house of the new minister of Salem, Samuel Parris, when his daughter, Betty, suffered from mysterious symptoms, and later she accused her slave, Tibuta, for using witchcraft on her. Later, two other women, Sarah Goode and Sarah Osborne, were accused of using witchcraft on other girls; right after the accusations, they were arrested (Lecture 9/13/2016). As a result, the hunt of witches began which led to hundreds of arrests, and nineteen accused were hanged (Text 190). Although three hundred years have passed, the true cause of the episode remains a mystery. Many scholars have conducted numerous studies of the trails, however,
What I said was altogether false against my grandfather and Mr. Burroughs, which I did to save my life and to have my liberty; but the Lord, charging it to my conscience, made me in so much horror that I could not contain myself before I denied my confession…”(Godbeer 147). This is a portion of a quote from the Recantation of Margaret Jacobs, (Hutchinson 30-31) who was accused of witchcraft during the infamous Salem Witch Hunt of 1692 that took place in and around Salem, Massachusetts. Nearly seventeen years old at the time, Margaret Jacobs confessed she had participated in the practice of witchcraft along with former Puritan minister, George Burroughs, and her own grandfather, George Jacobs, Sr. Both men had already been accused of practicing
...ion. The Salem tragedy, which occurred in 1692, makes us feel sympathetic towards the innocent people that died. It almost brings tears to our eyes because these people gave in to death in order to maintain humanity on this Earth. Although the deaths of these people were very tragic, it clearly demonstrates that good deed will always over power evil. The people, who reinforced this statement, were people like John Proctor and Rebecca Nurse. These people uprooted the seeds for evil from the ground, to lay the seeds for goodness. Throughout history citizens have branded people as witches, and warlocks. Maybe, a person act's different than us, or they have strange habits, does this make them a witch? In the Massachusetts Bay Colony in January of 1692, you would be branded a witch for these odd doing's. Being accused of witchcraft had serious consequences (spark notes).
... life and goes back to these girls who turned on her in an instant. Others even confess to witchcraft because, once accused, it is the only way to get out of being hanged. The confessions and the hangings actually promote the trials because they assure townsfolk that God?s work is being done. Fear for their own lives and for the lives of their loved ones drives the townspeople to say and do anything.
The case study of Angela and Adam describes a situation in which a Caucasian teenage mother, Angela, does not appear to have a bond with her 11 month old son, Adam. According to Broderick and Blewitt (2015) Angela and Adam live in the home with Angela’s mother, Sarah. Angela’s relationship with her own mother is described as a bit dysfunctional as Sarah is reported to continue to be angry with Angela for becoming pregnant in the first place. Sarah’s anger has caused her to deny Adam’s father the ability to come to the home and play an active role in Adam’s life, therefore putting more of a strain on Angela who has already had to drop out of high school in attempt to take care of Adam on her own. Angela has openly admitted
Then, someone would tie a rope around a tree branch, leaving a hole for the witch’s head. The witch would then, in the cart, put her head through the hole. When the cart was moved, the witch fell and was killed. Some believe Sarah Good might have actually been a witch. When a reverend accused Sarah Good of being in the gallows, she told him she was no more.
Once the accusations began, many innocent people in the community were taken away. They were then either forced to admit that they were witches, to free themselves from a public hanging, or deny that they were witches, saving their integrity, but subjecting themselves to an unjust public hanging.
... truth, denying her involvement as a witch, but be hung anyway for "lying" under oath. On the other hand, an innocent victim could lie and confess her involvement as a witch, accuse another witch instead and be let "off the hook". However, if the innocent victim lied and confess, but wasn't willing to turn in another witch, she would be hung anyway. (Starkey, 17) This created quite an ironic situation coming from a Christian based community of purity and holiness.
The Salem Witch Trials occurred because “three women were out in jail, because of witchcraft, and then paranoia spread throughout Salem” (Blumberg). In the Salem Village, “Betty Paris became sick, on February of 1692, and she contorted in pain and complained of fever” (Linder). The conspiracy of “witchcraft increased when play mates of Betty, Ann Putnam, Mercy, and Mary began to exhibit the same unusual behavior” (Linder). “The first to be accused were Tituba, a Barbados slave who was thought to have cursed the girls, Sarah Good, a beggar and social misfit, and Sarah Osborn, an old lady that hadn’t attended church in a year” (Linder). According to Linder, Tituba was the first to admit to being a witch, saying that she signed Satan’s book to work for him. The judges, Jonathan Corwin and John Hathorne, “executed Giles Corey because he refused to stand trial and afterwards eight more people were executed and that ended the Witch Trials in Salem”
Sarah Osborne was among many of the men and women who were accused during the very well known time known as The Salem Witch Trials. These events occurred in Salem, Massachusetts between the years of 1692 and 1693. Before Sarah was accused she was married to Robert Prince who bought a 150 acre farm next to John Putnam's. John Putnam was Robert’s brother in law and the executor of Prince’s will. and gave birth to two children, James and Joseph. They were four years apart. In 1674 Robert died, leaving Sarah his land. Sarah was to keep the land until the boys become of age.
...lation that surrounded the case ended with the torturous deaths of most of the alleged conspirators. Some where burned at the stake and others were hanged. Still more were broken on the wheel. The deaths of several men and a family were carried out largely on the basis of one 16-year-old servant's ever changing word.
The Salem Witch Trials took place in the summer and into the fall of the year 1692, and during this dark time of American history, over 200 people had been accused of witchcraft and put in jail. Twenty of these accused were executed; nineteen of them were found guilty and were put to death by hanging. One refused to plead guilty, so the villagers tortured him by pressing him with large stones until he died. The Salem Witch Trials was an infamous, scary time period in American history that exhibited the amount of fear people had of the devil and the supernatural; the people of this time period accused, arrested, and executed many innocent people because of this fear, and there are several theories as to why the trials happened (Brooks).