What are the belief concerning witchcraft in Salem in 1692?

Answer 1

Well the belief was that it was evil. And anyone strange was considered a witch. If you lived alone in the woods you did witchcraft. If you were from a different country, you did witchcraft. Even some of the ordinary people were accused of doing it. The punishment for doing witchcraft was, a burning at the stake. The gallows, tieing rocks to your feet and if you sunk u weren't a witch but were dead, and if you floated you were a witch and then they would kill you some other way. There was even a case where they piled someone full of rocks and it ended up suffocating him. Which is really sad but true. I would suggest figuring the rest out on your own, after all it is not our homework its yours. Use a library or the internet, it is only a click away.

Answer 2

The thought in salem was that putitan women were not able to be misiters so they signed the devil's book and worked for him.

Here is the case of an indian slave...

She preformed vodoo for the little girls she was watching
the girls told the priest
the women was tried
after a while she confessed and was hanged
she said she signed the devils book in blood, and that she saw 9 other names, the names she mentioned were seeked out and found, then executed

the little girls continued telling about different women that were witches...desperate for attention

this led to hundreds of deaths, and many more

other theroies
women worked for satan
satan took over women
women went to satan out of their curiosity
women felt nobody listened to them, so they went to satan

need to know anything else...

Answer 3

You mean what they beleived in during trials?
I think they believed that the people who were branded witches were to be burned or "clensed". It was the only way to stop the coming of Apocalypse.

Answer 4

Go see the Covenant.. it's about that..