Zeinert's The Salem Witchcraft Trials: Summary
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The story takes place during the sixteen-nineties (1690's or early
colonial America). This was a time when superstition was well beleived and
it was quite frightening for most people.
The place where the events in question took place was in Salem, a town in
the colony of Massachusetts. Around Sal ....
Middle of paper
.... Hobbs, Nurse, and the Cory's. Also many children were supposedly
being hurt by witches and they banded together against the accused.
The predicament in this story was that events such as a bad crop season
of the girls being bewitched needed to be explained. To say that
"witchcraft" is the answer the these questions. The unfortunate
circumstance for some of the accused witches/wizards was that some of them
had admitted to such crimes. The girls had fits and calling outs that
didn't bene ....
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