Top 5 Shocking Salem Witch Trials Facts
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Date: 2023-11-20
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brunnhilda1023
This video is terribly inaccurate. I'm from Salem MA. I've worked in local museums and studied the Salem Witch Trials for years. First, the ergot theory has been debated and debunked frequently. That is definitely not a fact, it's a highly contested theory. But more importantly, the death of Giles Corey in no way shocked the town out of its mania. Eight more people were executed just days after his death, including his wife! What put a halt to the executions was that Rev. Increase Mather condemned spectral evidence and then the wife of Gov. William Phips was accused of being a witch. After that, the Governor suspended the Court of Oyer & Terminer and replaced it with a court that would not admit spectral evidence. So really, it was the Governor who ended the trials in May 1693 (he pardoned the final convicts) and it had nothing to do with Giles Corey, who died Sept 19, 1692. And finally six men, not three, were hanged to death in the trials. Rev. George Burroughs, George Jacobs Sr, and Wilmot Redd were also executed. Ms. Mojo needs to do a MUCH better job in relaying Facts.
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This video is terribly inaccurate. I'm from Salem MA. I've worked in local museums and studied the Salem Witch Trials for years. First, the ergot theory has been debated and debunked frequently. That is definitely not a fact, it's a highly contested theory. But more importantly, the death of Giles Corey in no way shocked the town out of its mania. Eight more people were executed just days after his death, including his wife! What put a halt to the executions was that Rev. Increase Mather condemned spectral evidence and then the wife of Gov. William Phips was accused of being a witch. After that, the Governor suspended the Court of Oyer & Terminer and replaced it with a court that would not admit spectral evidence. So really, it was the Governor who ended the trials in May 1693 (he pardoned the final convicts) and it had nothing to do with Giles Corey, who died Sept 19, 1692. And finally six men, not three, were hanged to death in the trials. Rev. George Burroughs, George Jacobs Sr, and Wilmot Redd were also executed. Ms. Mojo needs to do a MUCH better job in relaying Facts.
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brianna
You said only three men were hanged. Put a little more effort into researching your top facts. Maybe have someone verify your work before you publish.
The fact is that five men were hanged:
on August 19, 1692
George Burroughs, the town's former minister
George Jacobs
John Proctor
John Willard
on September 22, 1692
Samuel Wardwell
And we wonder why Americans are falling so far behind the rest of the world in education.
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You said only three men were hanged. Put a little more effort into researching your top facts. Maybe have someone verify your work before you publish.
The fact is that five men were hanged:
on August 19, 1692
George Burroughs, the town's former minister
George Jacobs
John Proctor
John Willard
on September 22, 1692
Samuel Wardwell
And we wonder why Americans are falling so far behind the rest of the world in education.
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Official
The reason it was stopped was the creators wife was accused they didnt regret it they he just didnt want his wife put on trial do you really think after those people were executed he only regretted it after his WIFE was accused, also I think its odd that your using theories and using them to say it was all fake and why did the kids accuse people after they started have weird contortions and knew who they were accusing and said it was them
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The reason it was stopped was the creators wife was accused they didnt regret it they he just didnt want his wife put on trial do you really think after those people were executed he only regretted it after his WIFE was accused, also I think its odd that your using theories and using them to say it was all fake and why did the kids accuse people after they started have weird contortions and knew who they were accusing and said it was them
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Dynasty
The whole fungus causing the hallucinations was refuted by scientists. After all if it was in fact caused by fungus some should have died from the fungus poisoning, also if that were the case why were only young children affected by it and not the adults? And last if it caused them to have hallucinations it wouldn't stop and then start again within a few days.
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The whole fungus causing the hallucinations was refuted by scientists. After all if it was in fact caused by fungus some should have died from the fungus poisoning, also if that were the case why were only young children affected by it and not the adults? And last if it caused them to have hallucinations it wouldn't stop and then start again within a few days.
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Cynda
The children were afraid of being called out for lying, vengeful against those they didn't like, and bored. The fungus thing, if it happened (which I think is just a scape goat to make the truth more easy to swallow which. no) was an inspiration for what was to come if anything. Those children only cared about their personal gain.
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The children were afraid of being called out for lying, vengeful against those they didn't like, and bored. The fungus thing, if it happened (which I think is just a scape goat to make the truth more easy to swallow which. no) was an inspiration for what was to come if anything. Those children only cared about their personal gain.
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William
Doctors claiming witchcraft, judges sentencing them to death! Lawyers raging points and getting paid! All murders and accomplices to murder! Yet they want us to call them your honor! The courts claimed black people were property and half human! Courts allowed rape and murder! Our court system is not honorable
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Doctors claiming witchcraft, judges sentencing them to death! Lawyers raging points and getting paid! All murders and accomplices to murder! Yet they want us to call them your honor! The courts claimed black people were property and half human! Courts allowed rape and murder! Our court system is not honorable
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Aequitas
Thank you brunnhilda1023. I agree totally. Just came back from salem and been studying the witch trials and witchcraft for years. I'm glad someone else besides me spoke on the matter. Please do your research more before making these videos. I've seen a few most are interesting but lack propper research.
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Thank you brunnhilda1023. I agree totally. Just came back from salem and been studying the witch trials and witchcraft for years. I'm glad someone else besides me spoke on the matter. Please do your research more before making these videos. I've seen a few most are interesting but lack propper research.
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Cristy
From what I read Posiened rye could have caused the sickness of the victims that weren't faking. The 19 hanged and 1 pressed for 2 days and no burning at the steak was correct. I do agree with brunhilda 1023 with other inaccuracies. Just wondering did you read a book at all for this video?
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From what I read Posiened rye could have caused the sickness of the victims that weren't faking. The 19 hanged and 1 pressed for 2 days and no burning at the steak was correct. I do agree with brunhilda 1023 with other inaccuracies. Just wondering did you read a book at all for this video?
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Scott
If you look up the names of the witches that were accused you will find that they're all related to people in prominent positions of power today. Clinton's, Astor, Brown and so on. They were real Satan lovers and so are they're relatives. 13 families.
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If you look up the names of the witches that were accused you will find that they're all related to people in prominent positions of power today. Clinton's, Astor, Brown and so on. They were real Satan lovers and so are they're relatives. 13 families.
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StarBoyLust
So basically, Religious nutcases who wanted power for themselves brutality murdered innocent individuals in the name of GOD just because the amazing people could do something they could never do. Typical.
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So basically, Religious nutcases who wanted power for themselves brutality murdered innocent individuals in the name of GOD just because the amazing people could do something they could never do. Typical.
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The
What if all of the actual witches in Salem were just the men in the courts and they manipulated people to go against women so the men caused those people illusions and run the world with their witchcraft?
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What if all of the actual witches in Salem were just the men in the courts and they manipulated people to go against women so the men caused those people illusions and run the world with their witchcraft?
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Oliver
The theory of fungus being the cause for all of it is proven speculative and a leap to apply it to the whole cause. Claiming it is a fact that it was fungus that caused the trials is wrong.
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The theory of fungus being the cause for all of it is proven speculative and a leap to apply it to the whole cause. Claiming it is a fact that it was fungus that caused the trials is wrong.
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tessa
this is a terrible video, a lot of things are not accurate at all. I am doing the Salem Witch Trails as a NHD project and you obviously have no idea what you are talking about.
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this is a terrible video, a lot of things are not accurate at all. I am doing the Salem Witch Trails as a NHD project and you obviously have no idea what you are talking about.
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Plague
I definitely know there were some men that were accused of being witches and that they didn't really burn them as their way of execution that was mostly being hung.
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I definitely know there were some men that were accused of being witches and that they didn't really burn them as their way of execution that was mostly being hung.
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KINDNESS
The most shocking thing is that some people actually still believe in things like witchcraft and the devil. Scary to think these people have political power.
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The most shocking thing is that some people actually still believe in things like witchcraft and the devil. Scary to think these people have political power.
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Potato-Frost
Im the tenth grand daughter to Mary Towne Eastey she was one of the people who was hung and then later she was found innocent its quite interesting
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Im the tenth grand daughter to Mary Towne Eastey she was one of the people who was hung and then later she was found innocent its quite interesting
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Shiney
1: 39 her name appears of 400 times?
THEY DIDNT EVEN ARESST THAT MANY PEOPLE DURING THE SALEM WITCH TRILALS THEY ARRESTED 200!
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1: 39 her name appears of 400 times?
THEY DIDNT EVEN ARESST THAT MANY PEOPLE DURING THE SALEM WITCH TRILALS THEY ARRESTED 200!
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Georgian
when the reason of the hunt is lower than the fact that not everybody was a woman in that hunt just because of feminism
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when the reason of the hunt is lower than the fact that not everybody was a woman in that hunt just because of feminism
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Julie
My Step-Sister took me, my mom and my niece to The Salem Witch Trial museum last year when we were visiting her in Boston!
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My Step-Sister took me, my mom and my niece to The Salem Witch Trial museum last year when we were visiting her in Boston!
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James
Im pretty sure Abigail Williams was the name sake of Abigail Bellwether from Motherland: Fort Salem. Whos seen that show?
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Im pretty sure Abigail Williams was the name sake of Abigail Bellwether from Motherland: Fort Salem. Whos seen that show?
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Natalie
Poor Pagans and Wiccans. blessed be. This video would be nicer if ya noted that you know what witchcraft actually is.
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Poor Pagans and Wiccans. blessed be. This video would be nicer if ya noted that you know what witchcraft actually is.
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Brittany
The first fact is wrong. The fungi mentioned is only a possible theory and it has flaws like several other theories.
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The first fact is wrong. The fungi mentioned is only a possible theory and it has flaws like several other theories.
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Jesus
Fungus poisoning is just a theory. One of the girls later confessed to lying, which debunks this particular theory.
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Fungus poisoning is just a theory. One of the girls later confessed to lying, which debunks this particular theory.
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Buzry
The irony is that they didn't hang those that said that they were witches, but those that didn't say they were.
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The irony is that they didn't hang those that said that they were witches, but those that didn't say they were.
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