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Ultimately, 19 individuals who had refused to admit guilt were hanged and another was pressed to death. For centuries, scholars have attempted to identify similarities among the accused. Most agree that those accused of witchcraft tended to be eccentric individuals who stood out from their Puritan neighbors in some way.

Quakers , for example, were easy targets. Most of the accused were Godfearing individuals and respected townspeople. After the hysteria was over, Massachusetts recognized the witch trials for what they were and began a centuries-long process of atonement. Judges, juries, and accusers publicly apologized, but the apologies were of little comfort to affected families. By the state had exonerated the accused from all wrongdoing and offered monetary compensations to surviving family members.

In the Massachusetts state legislature officially cleared the names of the last of the accused witches. The Crucible itself has met with censorship in some communities and has been banned from some schools. This article was originally published in Elizabeth Purdy, Ph. Hoffer, Peter Charles.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Norton, Mary Beth. Roach, Marilyn K. New York: Cooper Square Press, Kluft, David. Elizabeth R. Salem Witch Trials [electronic resource]. It is after the trial of Doctor Fian that the witch hunts in Scotland, and later England, flourished. An online book about "The Malleus Maleficarum The Witch Hammer , first published in , is arguably one of the most infamous books ever written, due primarily to its position and regard during the Middle Ages.

It served as a guidebook for inquisitors during the inquisition, and was designed to aid them in the identification, prosecution, and dispatching of Witches. A Comparative Study of "What characteristics predisposed individuals to accusations of witchcraft? In looking at both the accused themselves and at the accusations, one is struck with many notable similarities between witches in Scotland and witches in East Anglia.

This paper will examine those similarities as well as highlighting the differences in treatment of the accused. Witch Trials of Scotland. The Presbyterian clergy acted like inquisitors, and the church sessions often shared the prosecution with the secular law. These are all documented incidents in the killings of "witches.

Burn the Witch: the Forfar witch hunts of the 's. This Act of Parliament was not abandoned until In between. This belief in the power of the accused to use their invisible shapes or spectres to torture their victims had sealed the fates of those tried by the Court of Oyer and Terminer.

The new court released those awaiting trial and pardoned those awaiting execution. In effect, the Salem Witch Trials were over. Historians and sociologists have examined this most complex episode in our history so that we may understand the issues of that era and view subsequent events with heightened awareness. Bridget Bishop, Hanged, June 10, Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archives. Roach Jul 22, Salem Witch Museum. The Witch House. Witch Dungeon Museum. Witch History Museum.