Any info bout Salem Witch Trials?Tituba? Ann Putnam?

Answer 1

first the events took place in another town , not salem.....the trial was in salem.............20 people were killed as witches because they would not confess they were witches.....the fifty or so that confessed were spared........eventually about one third of the population of this little town(sorry I cant recall the name) were accused of being witches

There was an african slave who admitted she was a witch and had taught witchcraft to some of the girls in the town..........maybe she was forced to say this by her owner...who knows

Weird thing about all that is this...........years later(like recently) their were pentagrams and other satanic drawings found on a large boulder in the area..............These were so old they could barely be seen except at certain times of day when the light was just right.........scarping of the paint used was scientifically dated and dated back to the exact days of the trials................evidently somebody was practicing witchcraft after all!!!!!

Answer 2

Tituba was really a with if you saw the "Crucible" in the beginning and Ann Putnam was accused,in the end Tituba lives and Ann Putnam dies,along with some other guy named John.

Answer 3

There is an enormous amount of material on the Salem Witch Trials. This includes a lot of legends and popular misconceptions.

Please do note that *The Crucible* by Arthur Miller is not particularly accurate as history. In fact, it does not really aim to be so. When Miller wrote he was actually using this story as a means of attacking McCarthyism in the 1950s.

Below is a collection of what I have found to be solid materials - and some aspects of the case that tend to be missed in many popular treatments. (I pulled it together for two of my own kids who had to read The Crucible and related books in high school and wanted to know what REALLY happened.) I hope you find some useful things here

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Check out:

1) Collections of materials and overview, including court documents.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm

http://www.salemwitchtrials.org/home.html

"Teaching the Salem Witch Trials
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~bcr/maps_esri/Ray_ch02.pdf



2) Participants who expressed warnings about excesses.. and misgivings

a) Some information, often missed, on how the Mathers warned AGAINST the use of spectral evidence (Cotton Mather's pamphlet warning against witchcraft is often noted and blamed as a partial cause of events at Salem, but the other side of what he and his father did is too often missed.)
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/salem/people/i_mather.html
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/ASA_INC.HTM

b) Interesting material on Samuel Sewall, a judge in the trials who, five years later, made a public apology (also an early abolitionist)

summary
http://shs.westport.k12.ct.us/radler/ColonialEarly%20AmLit/samuel_sewall1.htm

a recent book -
*Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of an American Conscience* by Richard Francis (HarperCollins, 2005)
http://www.amazon.ca/Judge-Sewalls-Apology-American-Conscience/dp/product-description/0007163622


3) sociological studies that try to explain the BELIEF in witchcraft more generally, how these sorts of trials came about, etc.

One book I have found helpful in suggesting an explanation for the belief in witchcraft in the medieval and early modern European world is Rodney Stark's *For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery* (Princeton University Press, 2003).

One major section of this book is devoted to studying when and where witch-hunts took place, who conducted them, what the results were, etc. (He shows, for instance, that most studies greatly inflate the numbers. He also argues that some sort of belief in witchcraft was "normal" in these times... and suggests this belief is related to their view of a RATIONAL universe, not exactly to the type of superstitions many have blamed it on.)

There are also some good, recent academic studies on this subject (both the specific history of the Salem case and more general studies of witch-hunting in Europe...), but besides being very heavy, you will probably find them difficult to get your hands on. The books I listed you should be able to find in a school or public library.