in the salem witch hunt, were there any real witch that died, and what of the few that may have gotten away?

Question

yea, i saw a documentary on it a week or so ago and i wanted to know a lil more bout it and if anyone made it.

Answer 1

No.they were all Christians,except for one prostitute.The tv and schoolbooks got it wrong.A witchcraft coven did it to keep safe from the Puritans.

Answer 2

The Salem Witch Trials occured in Massachusetts between the years of 1692 and 1693. Over 150 people were arrested and imprisoned. The court convicted 29 people of "witchcraft", 19 of which were hanged, one tortured, and at least 5 died in prison. (The others were let out of prison at the end of the trials,I believe, when the Supreme Court stepped in)
The trials supposedly started when someone in the town of Salem found some young girls and a slave of the town's preacher, Tituba, dancing around in the woods late at night, which was highly looked down upon in those days. They were said to be talking to the Devil and trying to contact the souls of a Salem lady's babies who died during childbirth. Thus, the slave woman and other various people in Salem were accused of being a witch or practicing witchcraft, mostly accused by 2 young girls (9 and 11 years old). The ones accused were mostly outcasts, poor people, or people that the town leaders could benefit from when they were convicted.
No one really knows whether any of these accused were real "witches" or not, and no one knows if any witch "got away".
If you want to know more about the actual trials, I suggest going to see the play "The Crucible", or just Google it or Wikipedia it. While some of the parts of the play are slightly inaccurate, it gets the main idea across!
Good luck, and I hope I answered your question!

Answer 3

See link.

Answer 4

The Salem Witch Trials were the result of percuition over many years, the so-called witch hunts origonally targeted women and men who held belief in and practiced pagan traditions. At the time of the Salem Witch Trials,however, the word witch was often a good cover to have some one burned out of spite.

In those days a woman who could heal by boiling herbs and tree bark was a witch because she thought beyond the cloisters of religous beliefs; today that same woman would have probally been a doctor or a pharmasist or a research person in a science lab.

The Roman Catholic Church, durring the time known as the dark ages, printed a phamplet that all but sealed the coffin lid for hundred of thousands. This phamplet described the attributes of a witch, and the methodology of finding them out, toruchering them, and finally killing them. I, as many others believe, that this was done to quelch the upsurge in mysticism in the dark ages. To the Roman Catholic Church a woman who could think, who could reason and who could voice her thoughts beyond what was drilled into them at mass was an enemy.
It has been proven that untill the birth of christianity, there was little if no religous perscuituion, conflicts in the times of the greeks, romans and druids, were always over land, territory. Even slaves that were prisoners of war were allowed to worship as they pleased. Then enter the christians, (mind you I find nothing wrong with any religion that gives hope and purpose- even christianity its self, but I am trying to make a point) there has not been another religion that has grown so massive out of means that most christians would find appaling. No other religion has grown out of such turmoil since, except for maybe islam, but just the radical portion and only here in this century.

Finally to answer your question fully, most of those accused were not witches at all, the trials became a folly for jealousy and hatred and biggotry. Hundreds of thousands of innoncents, who were only guilty of being accused, were murdered in cold blood in the name of a belief. Neighbour accused neighbour, families were torn apart, paronoia and terror ran rampant through out communities. And the "Witch Hunters" knew they had blood on their hands, innoncent blood. Most of the hunters met their ends violently, and not long after the end of the trials.

History has her lesson in the blood that ran from those who died, its just a shame that it seems we are repeating the same lesson today in the sands of the middle eastern deserts.

Answer 5

There are no such thing as witches. Those who died in the witch hysteria of Salem in the 1690s were all innocent and victims of judicial murder.

Innocent men, woman, children (and a dog) were slowly tortured to death by the most educated people in Salem sitting as Magistrates because of hysteria and superstition. Things haven't changed much today in the 21st century when you look at all the wrongful incarcerations in the States.

Answer 6

No.None died.That Gibbie is right including the deal about one prostitute.Occultists and witches are real.Go to the R&S section here and you'll see Wiccans giving advice.

Answer 7

There are so many books, TV shows and movies about the Salem witch trials.
Are there any witches? It turns out that of those who confessed to being a witch, none were put to death. Of those who did not confess, quite a few were killed. One man had stones placed onto him...lying flat on his back in a field. They kept piling stones on him; he was killed.
Since there are no witches, none got away; people did come to their senses and realize they were wrong in having witch trials.

Answer 8

A bunch of gung-ho Christians running around killing people who we call today as herbalist or nurses or doctors. If someone was smarter than them and healed someone with herbs or alittle medical common sense, Christians got all freaky and killed them. They feared what they did not undertand. Idiots!

Answer 9

No.And Gibbie is right.Didn't know there were other real researchers of true history on here.Collins bloodline brought witchcraft to America.I'd give her the points for mentioning the prostitute.She's correct.

Answer 10

Those people that were sentenced were innocent.
The real witches and warlocks were never caught.
They were too smart, intelligent, with high I.Q. level to have been caught.
They were very humble, secretive, and didn't draw any attention to themselves and just left before anyone could even notice.
No one ever did notice them leaving, that was how discreet the real witches and warlocks were.