Context A Break With Charity Core 6

• The trials lasted from February 1692 to May 1693.
• The death toll of the trials was about 20 people, and they were mostly women.
• This all started when a group of girls in Salem said that they were possessed by the devil himself, and accused other women of doing witchcraft.
• Those specific girls were believed to have a supernatural power to harm others in return for their loyalty.
• It became widespread in New England as early as the 14th century.
• Tituba was accused of being a witch, among many others.
• People thought that the “witches” were deadly people. If someone was classified as a witch, they were hung, drowned or burned at the stake.
• First to be killed as a “witch” was Bridget Bishop.
• About 150 men, women and children were accused of being “witches”.
• When the local doctor, William Griggs, diagnosed bewitchment, other young girls began to develop similar symptoms as Betty, including Ann Putman Jr., Mercy Lewis, Mary Walcott, Elizabeth Hubbard, and Marry Warren.
• In late February, arrest warrants were issued to Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborn for bewitching the young girls

Ann Putnam

• Ann Putnam lived from 1679-1716
• Died at age 36-37
• After her parents died in 1699 she had to raise nine siblings ages 7 months to 16 years old
• Was 12 at the time of the trials

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