How many witches were burned in Salem Mass.?

Question

Salem Mass witch trials.

Answer 1

The same number that were Wiccans: ZERO

Answer 2

i have watched this and wondered simply because i felt that back then if someone started something like saying their a witch that everyone in the town would go nuts untill they was killed..

Once i saw something on salem..and it had a woman there that was a witch i think she was a pretty much into it..

But the story that really bugged me aside from they didnt deserve to die like that is that if the person they said was a witch and they had a daughter they would kill the child to..it didnt seem to matter if they was or not..seems like a lot of people died who wasnt a witch..but i am sure some was..

This was about a little girl who was 7 and they crushed her little body they had some sort of machine..there is no excuse for this kind of behavior on any accounts..

I do not agree with witches, but i do not believe that they should have died this way..

Answer 3

No Witches Were Burned at the Stake in Salem.


The Salem witch trials of 1692 were protracted, grueling affairs, and by the time they were concluded in October of that year, 150 people had been arrested, of whom 31 were tried and 20 were put to death. But the present-day assumptions about the trials are fraught with misconceptions, and much of what is commonly believed to have transpired in that Massachusetts port town simply never happened. For one thing, there is no proof that bona fide witches and witchcraft even existed. Rather, what was attacked then as a rash of witchcraft would surely in a later time have been medically diagnosed as mass hysteria. It is true that children in Salem slaughtered pigs, that women made advances to their neighbors' husbands, and that ministers behaved with decidedly unministerial abandon, but these were the acts of sick people, not demons. And the splenetic rage against witches which caught up many professedly pious townspeople was part of this mass hysteria. Among the first of the Salem "witch bitches" were the young daughters of Rev. Samuel Parris and their friends, who fell under the devil's sway and behaved immorally after listening evening after evening to blasphemies and lurid stories of life in the West Indies told them by Tituba, the family slave. Soon several of the girls' impressionable young friends became similarly "possessed," and thus the epidemic spread.


Another misconception is that the convicted witches were burned at the stake. In Salem and elsewhere, hanging was the standard method of execution, although one victim was crushed to death under heavy stones. And witchcraft was not exclusively the work of women. Six of the 31 witches tried and condemned were men.


Some people believe that only in Salem were witches tried and punished. Not so. There are records of witch-hunts in nearby Andover, Mass., and in Maine. New England minister Cotton Mather had described the anguished writhings of "possessed" children in Boston four years earlier: "They would have their mouths opened so wide that their jaws went out of joint, and they would at once clap together again with a force like that of a strong spring-lock. The same would happen to their shoulder blades, and their elbows, and hand wrists, and several of their joints. They would at times lie in a benumbed condition and be drawn together like those who are tied neck and heels, and presently be stretched out, yea, drawn backwards to such an extent that it was feared the very skin of their bellies would have cracked."


While it is widely believed that during the height of the Salem witchcraft mania one could have one's enemies tried and hanged for witchery simply by innuendo, this was not always so. Many well-seated members of Salem society were accused of witchcraft and set free nonetheless. In fact the mother-in-law of Salem's Judge Jonathan Corwin was charged repeatedly with demonic acts, but never even appeared in court.


One final surprising note: The convictions of the Salem witches did not stick. On Oct. 17, 1711, an Order of Compensation reversed the attainders of 22 of the 31 convicted in Salem. The remaining nine, who had no surviving friends or relatives to plead their reinstatement, had to wait until 1957, when the state of Massachusetts finally reversed the convictions of all those not covered by the 1711 act.

Answer 4

Burned? None I think. In Salem I think they drowned them and crushed them.

The burnings (and the volumes of witch killings) were mostly in Europe.

Answer 5

20
14 women
6 men

were killed in salem as part of the witch hunt.

but they were not burned....

it is sometimes said that no witches or pagans were killed. because they were smart enough to hide their beliefs, however many people were accused of witchcraft because someone claimed that they were the reason that a cow died or some such nonsense.

Answer 6

OK. read 'The Crucible". It will give you very accurate information on this subject. There were 19 hung, both men and women. 1 was crushed, a man. Tons were released for stating that they were 'real witches'. There were a few girls who made up a load of cuck-and-bull to get rid of their enemies...One eventually confessed that it was a hoax, but returned to her orginal story once threated with hanging for heresy andd witchcraft. Really, read this book.

Answer 7

i have not taken the time to look it up but i believe that none were burnt for being a witch. they were hanged with the exception of one woman who was laid on the ground and had large stones placed on her abdoment and chest until she was no longer able to breathe.

another answer is that no witches were burnt, because there were no true witches. only some poor individuals that had drawn the ire and/or fear of some in their townships at the time that the "witch scare" was going on.

-eagle

Answer 8

There were no witches in salem mass.

Answer 9

Four were burned by an unscrupulous door to door vacuum salesman....oh wait a minute....sorry, I thought this was the Consumer Affairs section. No witches were burned, but I believe at least three were given lethal injections, and nine others had to perform community service. One was found not guilty, when she passed the dunking test, and drowned..

Answer 10

there were like 12 people killed i think at the salem witch trials. it was because of a group of young girls who accused ppl in the community of being witches who they didnt like, or that there parents didnt like, so they could get rid of them. they were all innocent, and later on one of the girls admitted this and said she was sorry in front of a bunch of people.

Answer 11

They weren't burnt. A total of 25 died. 21 hanged and 4 died in prison. Many who were released after being found not guilty were left destitute because they had to pay Gaol fees and this resulted in the liquidation of their property, so many died in poverty because of the wicked actions of 'Christian' Puritans. The real culprits - the accusers - were never punished.