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He issued a decree, which led to the persecution of people suspected of witchcraft.
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Afflicted people were tortured. Many people admitted to flying on poles, casting spells, and many other things to do with Satan. Witchcraft was starting to become a huge problem.
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Pope Innocent said that satanist in Germany were meeting with the devil, and casting spells, and causing women to abort babies. Pope Innocent asked for Jacob Sprenger to write a full report on witchcraft. Soon a few years later the book Malleus Maleficarum was published. This book told many stories about the afflicted women.
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During the mid-1500s in Geneva, Switzerland 500 witches were burned. Some years later in Como, Italy over a 1000 witches were executed. Also during this time, Europe was divided into two religions, Protestants, and Catholics. Both of them took witchcraft very seriously. Many witches were executed.
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Trois-Echelles a former accused witch, said that there are over 100 thousand witches in France. Many of those accused were executed.
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In the 1640's the largest witch hunt in France occured. During this time England was very involved with witch hunts too. But by the late 1640's witch hunting in Europe began to decrease. For example Holland had done away with the punishments of the accused witches.
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By 1660 there were 80 thousand witches accused, and executed in Europe. 26 thousand of those were in Germany, 10 thousand of those were in France, and 1 thousand in England, and only 4 in Ireland.
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Temperance Lloyd the last witch in England to be accused of witchcraft, and the last to be executed.Lord Chief Justice Sir Francis North was a witchcraft critic. He looked into all the details of this women to find her guilty. She was found guilty, but her confession made the details even more true. After this execution witch hunts came to and end, with a new era starting, Englightenment, in the late 1680's.
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Goody Glover a worker in the Goodwin's house, accused of witchy against the Goodwin children. The evidence behind this would be the strange behavior the children are showing.
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Samuel Parris named new minster of Salem.
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Abigail Williams, and Elizabeth Parris begin to show strange behaviors, like the behaviors shown by the Goodwin children four years before. Soon after these two girls, even more salem girls begin to show odd behaviors.
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Docter Griggs, the docter who sees the afflicted girls, says that a cause to the girls strange behavior may be from witchcraft.
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Tituba is requested to bake a cake by Mary Sibely, to help counteract the spell put on Abigail and Elizabeth. She put urine of the afflicted girls into the cake and gave it to a dog. This was an old English remedy.
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John Hathorn and Jonathan Corwin examine Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne, for showing signs of witchery. Tituba is the only one who confesses to doing witchcraft, and she also said that both Sarah Good, and Osborne are co- conspirators of witchcraft.
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Ann Putnam, Mercy Lewis, Mary Warren, Mary walcott show strange behaviors as well.
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Elizabeth Proctor is accused committing witchery, along with other people, such as Sarah Good, Martha Cory, Rebecca Nurse, etc.
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On this day John Proctor was the first man accused of witchcraft, because he protested the examinations of his wife.
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Bridget Bishop was the first to be tried, and accused of witchcraft. This day she was also sentenced to death, The 10th she is hanged a Gallows Hill.
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Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Sarah Wildes, Sarah Good, and Elizabeth Howe are all found guilty this day, and sentenced to hang.
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Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, Sarah Good and Sarah Wildes are hanged this day.
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George Jacobs Sr., Martha Carrier, George Burroughs, John Willard and John and Elizabeth Proctor are all found guilty this this day, and are sentenced to hang.
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George Jacobs Sr., Martha Carrier, George Burroughs, John Willard and John Proctor , but Elizabeth is not hanged, because she is found to be pregnant.
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Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Dorcas Hoar and Mary Bradbury are all pronounced guilty, and are sentenced to be hanged.
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Margaret Scott, Wilmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Abigail Faulkner, Rebecca Earnes, Mary Lacy, Ann Foster and Abigail Hobbs are 9 more people sentenced to hang.
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Giles Corey is indicted this day.
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Martha Cory, Margaret Scott, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Willmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, and Mary Parker are hanged.
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While many have been accused a few years before in 1711 a Bill is passed restoring the good names of those who were accused during the time of the salem witch trials.
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Finally over a hundred years, Massachusetts apologizes for the Salem witch trials, and to all the lives lost because of this event.
