ECN 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Salem Witch Trials, Tituba, The Marriage Market
22 Nov 2015
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14 women and 5 men were put to death, 18 hung, one crushed to death. Lack of a government, making it impossible to resolve conflict through the law courts (third part impartiality) Much belief in magic i. e. diving the future; human to want to know the future (max. satisfaction) The church was against the practice of magic and condemned those that practiced magic (=witchcraft). In europe, over 100,000, mostly women, had been executed for witchcraft. Samuel paris came to salem and spearheaded a new church. In early 1692, young girls in parris" household began to act strangely. The local doctor concluded that the afflicted girls were the victim"s of witchcraft . All the afflicted girls were on the side of parris. Tituba, a west indian slave, confesses to practicing witchcraft. Soon the afflicted young women began t o accuse more women of witchcraft (did. Tituba contribute to the accusation of more women?-yes)
