Acadia S.
2015

Witches and Witchcraft

Witches and witchcraft were a very serious problem back in the 1690’s. Women were scared to leave their house and become afflicted or worse, be accused. This meant that you would spend the rest of your life rotting in jail or, you would be burned at the stake. People feared for their families and friends during this witch phenomenon. Although we might look back at witchcraft today and think to ourselves how someone could possibly believe in such a thing. People prayed to God that they would not be the next victim of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. While some people believe that these horrible events happened because of hatred towards each other, land, or even rye fungus. Others think that it truly was the devil working his magic on Earth. Witch trials happened when restricting women from everyday rights became careless sexism. Sexism that separated women and men from each other. Sexism that blocked women from doing normal everyday activities. Did sexism start witchcraft, or was it truly a work with the devil.