True Or False
True Or False?
Only women were accused of witchcraft
False!
Many men were also accused of witchcraft
If accused what were people asked to read from?
The bible
Despite being accused for being educated, it was believed that if a witch was working with the devil, then they wouldn't be able to read from the bible
The first person was 9
She accused a woman by the name of Tituba, who was an enslaved woman. She confessed and helped start the panic of the witches in Salem
Which animals were believed to work close with the devil.
Cats and dogs were both viewed to be in close ties with devil
True or False
The youngest person accused of witchcraft in salem was 4 years old
True!
She was in-prisoned for a year, and her father had to pay a fine of $50 to get her released.
What was something that witch hunters looked for in the court to show the jury that they were a witch?
A strange or odd-looking mole
or
a third nipple
One person who was accused didn't pled guilty or not guilty. what happened to him
They placed him between two wooden boards and slowly crushed to death with rocks trying to get a confession out of him
Why was burning at the stake a popular form of execution?
Because according to the roman catholic church it didn't shed blood and was an acceptable form of execution
100 People were accused of witchcraft in Salem alone.
False
over 200 people were accused, 140-50 were arrested
When one woman was found not guilty of witchcraft but soon after was hung for being a witch, why?
after her accuser began to through a fit and threw herself around in the court room they believed that she had cursed her
What animal was accused of being a witch
2 Dogs
the dogs were shot immediately, after the second dog was shot, they stopped killing dogs because "The devil doesn't die." but they continued to kill men and women for being witches.
What was one of the reasons that it's believed the witch trials became popular in Salem?
A wave of Smallpox had wiped out part of the town, and the towns folk began to look for someone to blame
or
Ergot poisonings, a type of poisoning that came from infected breads
One way of testing if someone was a witch was by pricking them with a knife, believing if they didn't bleed then that person was a witch
True
They used contractable knifes to show that the person didn't bleed
What two body parts were tied together before throwing the accused into a river to see if they would float or sink.
The Thumb and big toe
A witch cake was made from flour, eggs and the urine of the accused witch it was then fed to a --- and if it died then the accused was a witch
They feed it to dogs
What was the name of official position created by the UK because if the witch trials
The Witch finder general
True or false
The women were burned at the stake in Salem
False
no one in Salem was burned at the stake
The witchcraft acts out lawed what?
Anything that seemed like witchcraft, making it punishable by death
What plea was the most common to lead to the death penalty
Pleading innocent
What was the most popular profession that got accused of witchcraft?
Midwifery