Comparing Salem Possessed by Paul Boyer, The Story of the Salem Witch T

Comparing Salem Possessed by capital of Minnesota Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, The stage of the Salem enchantress Trials by Bryan Le Beau, and The Devil in the experimental condition of a Woman by Carol Karlsen The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 spread just about as fast as the down(p) Plague. This epidemic energized chaos among neighbors in a community. The chronology of events describes an awful time for colonists from June tenth to September 22nd of that year. The books Salem Possessed by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, The Story of the Salem Witch Trials by Bryan Le Beau, and The Devil in the square up of a Woman by Carol Karlsen all describe these events and volunteer varying write ups for the epidemic that plagued Salem Village. This review will look at the details that surrounded the trials and then using those facts will look at the cause stated in each book for the hysteria to compare and credit line with one another.The trials themselves began following an ins tance involving Betty Parris, Abigail Williams, and Ann Putnam, 3 young girls in the village. (Dufour, 248) The girls were caught playacting fortune-telling rituals in the woods outside the village. The claimed at the time that they were trying to develop information on the type of man that would be most qualified for them to marry. Soon after this event the girls began to lie with hysterical type fits. These fits prompted sacred Samuel Parris, the father of Betty Parris, to call on authorities to find an explanation for the fits. The explanation they found was very simple witchcraft. As the months went on more girls began to experience the same sort of events. It was only after intense questioning that the girls revealed the name of those afflicting them Sarah Osborne, Sarah Good... ... arguments and sufficient evidence to back it up. The remaining problem lies in the fact that there are no survivors to tell the accurate and unbiased story, if such a story exists. In 1692 Salem Village got its 15 transactions of fame and proved to people the extents humans will go to for the sake of affair and religion. It should teach a lesson every human being needs to learn, the smallest attendant can lead to hysteria of epidemic proportions. BIBLIOGRAPHYBoyer, Paul, and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed. Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1974. Dufour, Ronald P. compound America. Minneapolis, MN West Publishing Company, 1994. Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman Witchcraft in Colonial America. New York W.W.Norton & Co., 1987. Le Beau, Bryan F. The Story of the Salem Witch Trials. New Jersey Prentice Hall, 1998.