BY Alex Rochowski Braxton Caldwell Lexi Johnson and

BY: Alex Rochowski, Braxton Caldwell, Lexi Johnson, and Sara Heppard

§ Witches were believed to be agents of Satan on Earth. § Anyone could be a witch. § Witches can force others to do their will. § They can also cause pain for others just with body movements.

§ Trials prosecuting young people in Salem. § Mainly women. § Sentences were based on the Bible. § All were found guilty. § Similar to modern day hate and persecution of Muslims. § Accusers later apologized because they knew it was fake.

§ Puritan ideas became extreme. § People feared anything involving the Devil. § Medical knowledge at the time could not explain severe illnesses. § Easy way to settle disputes. § People were paranoid about witchcraft, so any hint of it freaked people out.

§ Either they admit to being a witch and are executed or they refuse and get banned from their village.

§ As soon as the people of Salem expected that there witches in their town ; they began manhunts and arrested anybody who they thought was a witch.

§ The Salem Witch trials began in January 1692 and lasted until May 1693.

§ Convulsive seizures § Screaming § trance like states § talking to yourself § not going to church § speaking in foreign languages

§ Yes, in other countries people still accuse others of witchcraft

§ The Red Scare: when many innocent people got in trouble out of the fear that they could be communists.