#Salem Witch Trials

[beggars-opera]

The Salem Witch Trials teach us the real lessons of life, like how Satan's wrath is small beans compared to that of Karen next door who hates your guts

#history #salem witch trials

[fallwithdrawals]

Salem By Artist Ryta Margaryta Yermolayeva

Instagram @fallwithdrawals

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[high-quality-tiktoks]

just a bunch

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[its-kayyyy]

time to make some witches angry!

you are not a reincarnated from the salem witch trials.

if you believe you are, sorry to break it to you hun, but your wrong.

there's a few problems with this, (1. only 25 people where executed, their are not enough souls to go around. (2. the people who were executed were not witches but normal christian people. they were just doing stuff that wasn't regular in the community and got accused of witchcraft because it wasn't normal in the community.

has my point been proven yet?

and before i get super attacked I am a pagan witch who does believe in reincarnation. so i am not 'sticking my nose in others business' i am putting my opinion out in my own community, which is, in fact, my business.

and feel free to attack me, block me, tell me how im oh so wrong, but my opinion will still stand indifferent.

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[666frames]

The Devonsville Terror (1983)

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[kemetic-dreams]

Onesimus (late 1600s–1700s) was an African man who was instrumental in the mitigation of the impact of a smallpox outbreak in Boston, Massachusetts. His birth name is unknown. He was enslaved and, in 1706, was given to the New England Puritan minister Cotton Mather, who renamed him. Onesimus introduced Mather to the principle and procedure of the variolation method of inoculation to prevent the disease, which laid the foundation for the development of vaccines. After a smallpox outbreak began in Boston in 1721, Mather used this knowledge to advocate for inoculation in the population. This practice eventually spread to other colonies. In a 2016 Boston magazine survey, Onesimus was declared one of the "Best Bostonians of All Time"

Onesimus's name at birth and place of birth are unknown with certainty. He was first documented as living in the colonies in 1706, having been brought to North America as an enslaved person. In December of that year, he was given as a gift by a church congregation to Cotton Mather, their Puritan minister of North Church, as well as a prominent figure in the Salem Witch Trials. Mather renamed him after a first-century AD enslaved person mentioned in the Bible.The name, "Onesimus" means "useful, helpful, or profitable".

Mather referred to the ethnicity of Onesimus as "Guaramantee", which may refer to the Coromantee (also known as Akan people of modern Ghana). 

Mather saw Onesimus as highly intelligent and educated him in reading and writing with the Mather family (for context, according to biographer Kathryn Koo, at that time, literacy was primarily associated with religious instruction, and writing as means of note-taking and conducting business)

In 1716 or shortly before, Onesimus had described to Mather the process of inoculation that had been performed on him and others in his society in Africa (as Mather reported in a letter): "People take Juice of Small-Pox; and Cut the Skin, and put in a drop." In the book, African Medical Knowledge, the Plain Style, and Satire in the 1721 Boston Inoculation Controversy, Kelly Wisecup wrote that Onesimus is believed to have been inoculated at some point before being sold into slavery or during the slave trade, as he most likely traveled from the West Indies to Boston.

The variolation method of inoculation was long practiced in Africa among African people.

The practice was widespread among enslaved colonial people from many regions of Africa and, throughout the slave trade in the Americas, slave communities continued the practice of inoculation despite regional origin.

Mather followed Onesimus's medicinal advice because, as Margot Minardi writes, "inferiority had not yet been indelibly written onto the bodies of Africans."

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[franki-lew-yo]

Eve and the Witnits - Eye on You

>tmw I accidentally saw my mom's graphic death and realized everyone hated me while I was still 9. Good times.

Mad Gorey could see his thoughts because she was keen to oracle magic.

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[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

February 29th, 1692: Arrest warrants for three women begin the Salem Witch Trials. All told, over 200 people were accused, 30 found guilty, and 25 died.

#history #american history #17th century #salem #salem witch trials #death

[octoberis4loverz]

Can’t wait to go back to Salem this year 🖤

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[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #salem witch trials #salem witches #salem #witches

[beggars-opera]

Hi, Salem Massachusets is a really fun place to visit, but while you’re listening to the accordion-playing werewolf and eating your caramel apple, please also remember the names of the people who died there in 1692-3, most of whom were executed by a corrupt justice system for a crime that didn’t actually exist:

Bridget Bishop

George Burroughs

Martha Carrier

Giles Corey

Martha Corey

Lydia Dustin

Mary Eastey

Ann Foster

Sarah Good

Unnamed infant of Sarah Good

Elizabeth Howe

George Jacobs

Susannah Martin

Rebecca Nurse

Sarah Osborne

Alice Parker

Mary Parker

John Proctor

Ann Pudeator

Wilmot Redd

Margaret Scott

Roger Toothaker

Samuel Wardwell

Sarah Wildes

John Willard

There are two memorials in town, one at the Charter Street cemetery, and the other at the site of the executions on Pope Street. Please visit them.

#history #salem witch trials #beating this to death because I care #salem #massachusetts #halloween

[cozyautumnvibes]

Autumn Movies: Hocus Pocus (1993)

dir. Kenny Ortega

After moving to Salem, Mass., teenager Max Dennison (Omri Katz) explores an abandoned house with his sister Dani (Thora Birch) and their new friend, Allison (Vinessa Shaw). After dismissing a story Allison tells as superstitious, Max accidentally frees a coven of evil witches (Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy) who used to live in the house. Now, with the help of a magical cat, the kids must steal the witches' book of spells to stop them from becoming immortal.

#hocus pocus #autumn #fall vibes #autumn aesthetic #fall blog #cozy #halloween #autumn vibes #october #autumn blog #max dennison #thackery binx #salem #salem witch trials #autumn movies #warmcore #warm and cozy #cottage core #fall aesthetic #sanderson sisters #thora birch #sarah jessica parker #all hallows eve #samhain #sweet autumn #comfort #disney

[nutnoce]

Salem Witch Trials, two collaged pieces made from a Peabody Essex Museum pamphlets

#Peabody Essex Museum #collage art #art of mine #salem #salem witch trials #witch

[salem-witch-history]

Original documentation of the witch trials is extensive, but incomplete. While transcriptions of some initial examinations before the grand jury survive, records from the actual trials do not have such extensive information about the actual proceedings at the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Sworn depositions by witnesses are an important resource, but the actions of those witnesses, as well as the judges and accusers, come mostly from books written about the trials after the fact. Most of the surviving documents are in the possession of the Phillips Library, currently maintained by the Peabody Essex Museum and located in Rowley, MA, although some holdings are elsewhere. Further archives can be found here.

#history #salem witch trials

[entheognosis]

Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg

#Steven Weinberg #salem witch trials

[pazzesco]

The Examination of a Witch (1853), depicting the trial of Quaker preacher Mary Fisher in 1656. Oil on canvas, 38.5 x 53.9 in.

6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials

Witches Tests Could Not be Passed

No One Was Burned at the Stake

The Youngest Accused Witch was Four Years Old

Courts Allowed Spectral Testimonies

Most of the Accusers were Children

The Trials Only Stopped when the Governor’s Wife was Accused

Witches Tests Could Not be Passed - Clergymen conceived the tests, and the accused witches would be tested until they failed, proving their practice of witchcraft. There was no way around the tests, and no one could pass every test.

No One Was Burned at the Stake - This style of execution is commonly thought of in conjunction with witch trials because, out of the tens of thousands of witch executions in Europe, many were burned at the stake. However, in Salem, no execution was carried out by burning the accused alive. The majority were executed by hanging.

The Youngest Accused Witch was Four Years Old - While most of the accused witches were adults, even elderly adults, one exception is Dorothy Good. Dorothy was four or five when she was charged and arrested for witchcraft. Her mother, Sarah Good, was an accused witch who would be one of the women executed by hanging for her supposed devil worship. Dorothy was said to be animalistic and deranged, traits she acquired from consorting with the devil.

Courts Allowed Spectral Testimonies - Spectral evidence is a form of evidence based on religious beliefs or visions and dreams. The alleged victims of witchcraft would claim to have been tormented by the spectral images of certain named members of the community; this was taken as evidence that those named were witches.

Most of the Accusers were Children - Those who were “afflicted” or victimized by the supposed witches were relatively young. The first accusers were Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams, aged 9 and 11. The girls were the daughter and niece of Puritan minister Reverend Samuel Parris, and when they fell ill, they blamed their symptoms on an enslaved woman in Parris’s household named Tituba. Many other young women followed suit, the oldest being 20. They accused supposed witches of afflicting them with all manner of symptoms. In reality, if the accusers were sick, it was due to contaminated drinking water rather than sorcery.

The Trials Only Stopped when the Governor’s Wife was Accused - When Phips learned of the allegations against his wife, he finally decreed that spectral evidence would not be permitted in the Salem witch trials. The eight witches Stoughton had planned to convict were cleared, and the Lieutenant Governor abandoned his post. Soon after, in February 1693, all accused witches were pardoned and released from prison by May.

#salem witch trials