• 57 Posts
  • 4.39K Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: October 2nd, 2023

help-circle





  • Yep, the Putnam family had 3 ”afflicted girls" (one was adult), and made over 60/200 accusations. Almost all of which were against political or business rivals, or connected in some manner. It very well may have began a political/business conspiracy between Thomas Putnam and Reverend Parris, playing on very real Puritan and settler fears.

    Plus, the Indians were kinda pissed about being slaughtered, and were big on raiding Colonial towns at the time, which added to fears


  • Correct, the Catholic Church was completely uninvolved. Because Salem was Puritan, not Catholic. And yes, the Puritan church was very very much involved. Reverend Parris is the person who instigated the paranoia and made the first accusations, (technically, his children, but probably him) and he played an active role throughout, and he was not the only reverend involved.

    It’s true, it was the court who actually convicted people, but they were still all Puritan.

    I’m not sure about Europe, but I think those were Catholics. Maybe not, though.

    And no one actually burned in Salem, they hung people