A decrease in the overall population and for the families that lost a person due to a witch hunt, it brought pain and sadness. Back then, men did the work. So if a man was accused of being a witch and he was put to death, the family had no income, no way to live. So it had a huge effect of everyone.
With hundreds in jail, the economy suffered because less and less people were actually working. The abandonment of farms because of imprisonment and the strange desire to observe the spectacles of the trials caused a famine. And Puritanism and Puritan leaders lost their power in Massachusetts.
Best i recollect, a witch was either stoned to death or burned at the stake, along with her "familiar."
Slavery and womens rights and the holocaust are some
Puritans didn't play.
their dickholes hurt
it started in 1692 some teenage girls ate rye bread that has a poison in it called ergot. the girls were "bewitched" which has symptoms of convulstions, tingly fingers, and halusinations (sp?). ergot poisoning causes halusinations, convulsions and it constricts arteries and you loose blood flow to the extremities (fingers and toes). and, the power of suggestion caused all of Salem to freakk out.
they thing that some people are around the fire it is a witch
some of the evidence looked for in the Salem witch trials was muttering under the breath of bizar words, paleness of the skin, and heavy sweat when being accused
Slavery and womens rights and the holocaust are some
Puritans didn't play.
the crucible and Salem witch trials
Salem witch crafts were in 1962 and it was a group of people that thought they were witchs and got harshly beaten and some times hanged for beliving what they want to
their dickholes hurt
Because some girls were acting weird and blaming it on village hobos.
it started in 1692 some teenage girls ate rye bread that has a poison in it called ergot. the girls were "bewitched" which has symptoms of convulstions, tingly fingers, and halusinations (sp?). ergot poisoning causes halusinations, convulsions and it constricts arteries and you loose blood flow to the extremities (fingers and toes). and, the power of suggestion caused all of Salem to freakk out.
mystry case files: curse of the briar rose Salem witch trials
they thing that some people are around the fire it is a witch
The Scarlet Letter and the Salem Witch Trials belong to very different eras. The 1640s and the 1690s were very different in New England. Especially in Boston.
There was no Samuel Parrish in Salem during the witch panic. However, if there's a typo and you were asking about Samuel Parris... Parris was the reverand of the church in Salem Village and the father and uncle respectively of the first to of the afflicted. He played up the bewitchment in the early stages, some believe, to keep the public's mind off how much they wanted to fire him. As the trials progressed, he continued to support the trials.