PPT-Salem & Witchcraft

First Year Seminar Salem Place Myth and Memory Miguel Peguero The Witch Trials of 1692 The Salem Witch Trials began Spring of 1692 A group of young girls in Salem Village claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused a few local women of witchcraft. Consulting Forensic Pathologist and Medical Examiner, on Issues and Answers with Jayne Valez Mitchell and The Nancy Grace Show on CNN Headline News, discussing high profile homicide, kidnapping, and missing person cases 2008-2012 . It Can Lead to Disaster…. Witch. WITCH. WITCH. WITCH. WITCH. ~The Salem Witch Trials~. BY: Daniel Allen. . Jennie Estep. . Jacob Faust. . Paul Long. 1. Students will be able to identify the major events and ideas of the Salem Witch Trials.. Puritan New England. What the women and men worn in Salem. The pilgrims and the Puritans wore homespun clothes. . Fine clothes wore by the upper classes.. . How their clothing support their religious views? . The ability of a person to cause harm by means of a personal power that resides within the body of the witch. Witchcraft in Pop Culture. Has become a bit distorted from traditional views of witchcraft:. Do Now. With your small groups, answer the questions:. When you think of witches, what comes to mind?. 2) What were the Salem Witch Trials? (Summarize). The Salem Witch Trials. 1692. Which Witch is Which?. (and Protection from Witchcraft). An inyanga . Mr. Zondi becomes an . inyanga, . pp.90ff. Julio Clemente’s question. His own sickness in young adulthood in 1962: “That was when I was called” . Ancestors direct his healing. The Salem Witch Trials took place in Colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft – 20 were executed. Trials have become the prime example of paranoia and injustice. M. ass . H. ysteria. . and the . [organized] . D. eaths. of many . innocent people. Brief Background. . . In 1688 John Putnam, an influential elder of the Salem Village invited Samuel Parris, a successful planter and merchant in Barbados to preach in church. Samuel Parris later accepted a job as a village minister and reverend, and started to live in Salem. With him he brought his family, and an Indian Slave. . What were some beliefs about witchcraft and witches people held in the past?. Belief in magic was almost universal in the past.. Almost all cultures believed that you could use supernatural means, to help make crops grow or to make humans or animals fertile.. Witchcraft as Modern. In the West, African beliefs in witchcraft are what make it primitive. Yet witchcraft (and anti-witchcraft medicine) is “modern”. Because it indexes social relations (envy), it increases with growth of social inequality (post-apartheid South Africa, 1920s Ghana during cocoa boom). H. eppard. What were some beliefs about witchcraft and witches people held in the past?. Witches were believed to be agents of Satan on Earth.. Anyone could be a witch.. Witches can force others to do their will.. The crucible. Prior knowledge. What do you know about the . Salem Witch Trials . and . McCarthyism. ?. How do the two concepts connect?. What do . you. think?. Predictions about the play?. What do you want to know?. Thesis. Although many were compromised in . The Crucible . during the trials of witchcraft, like “The Lesson of Salem” it explained the unfairness of the community convicting others who were innocent, yet those who compromised used it to their advantage to get away with conviction. . - what goes on in the family court?. Johanne Delahunty qc. 1. Sex, death & witchcraft. Introduction. Seminar Programme. Today's Lecture. My Background. A Warning!. Aren't you all just lawyers?. 2.