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**Some time during 1688 John Putnam, one of the most important elders of Salem Village, invited Samuel Parris to preach in the small village church. A year after discussions over some minor details Parris took the job as the new Salem Village minister. Parris moved to the Salem Village with his wife Elizabeth, his six year old daughter Betty, his niece Abagail Williams, and his Indian slave Tituba. Sometime during February of 1692, young Betty Parris became ill and during the time of her illness she would dash around, she would dive under the furniture, she was in horrible pain and she suffered from a high fever. Even to this day no one knows what was wrong with little Betty Parris.**
 * Many people in Salem believed that they were doing the right thing when they condemned innocent men and women to die at Gallows Hill in 1692 which is now commonly known as The Witch Hunt of Salem. When the witch hysteria swept through the small Salem Village it is understood why the people of Salem would condemn those people to death; they were only trying to protect those that they loved, but still they went about it all the wrong way. The real question is what really happened during those dark days. ** ** What exactly happened during the Salem witch hysteria? From the time of June to September nineteen innocent men and women were convicted of witchcraft and were dragged off to Gallows Hill. Gallows Hill is a barren slope near Salem Village used for hanging and another man of was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to stand trial on witchcraft charges. Hundreds of men and women also faced witchcraft accusations and another dozen wasted away in jail for months without so much as standing trial. **

The people of Salem brought their accusations against the three women to county magistrate Jonathan Corwin and John Hathorna, who planned examinations for the suspected witches on March 1, 1692 in the Ingersoll's tavern. At the woman's examinations, the girls described attacks by the ghosts of the three women. Soon after many of the villagers came forward to to tell stories of cheese and butter mysteriously gone bad and animals that were born with deformities after visits by one of the so called ghost. and the judges would asked the same questions of each person. Questions like were they witches, had they seen Satan, how, and if they are were not witches? The style and form of the questions that the judges were asking made it clear that they thought that the women on were guilty which is unfair because their innocent until proven guilty. ** **The whole which hunt could have stooped with the three of them; but Tituba claimed that she had been approached by a tall man from Boston who would sometimes appeared as a dog or a hog and the men would ask her to do his work.. Tituba had not only doomed the other two people that were arrested with her she gave the people of the Salem Village the gas that they needed to get the witch hunt going. She told the judges that she was a witch and four other witches, including Good and Osborn, had flown through the air on their poles. She had tried to run to Reverend Parris for counsel, she said, but the devil had blocked her path. Tituba's confession succeeded in transforming her from a possible scapegoat to a central figure in the expanding prosecutions. Her confession also served to silence most skeptics, and Parris and other local ministers began the hunt.** **During a March church service Ann putnam shouted, “Look were Good wife Cloyce sits on the beam sucking her yellow bird between her fingers!” soon Ann Putnam would join the other people that were arrested. Soon after poor Dorcas Good, four year old daughter of the Sarah Good became the first kid to be arrested for witchcraft charges. The little four year old was kept in jail for eight months and they mad her watched her mother get carried off to the gallows. The people of Salem laughed as she cried her heart out.** ** Stuck in jail with the damning testimony of the afflicted girls became accepted among the people in Salem. The suspects of the witch hunt began to understand that a confession could be a way for them to avoid the gallows. Deliverance Hobbs became the second witch to confess, admitting to pinching three of the girls at the Devil's command and flying on a pole to attend a witches' Sabbath in an open field. Phips created a new court called "court of oyer and terminer," to hear out all of the witchcraft cases. The first accused witch to be brought to trial was Bridget Bishop. Poor Bridget was an elderly women that owned a tavern where patrons could drink cider ale and play shuffleboard. Bishop was a likely candidate for an accusation of witchcraft. The fact that Thomas Newton, had selected Bishop for his first prosecution suggests that he believed the stronger case could be made against her than any of the other suspect witches. Bishop's trial was on the sad day of June 2, 1692, a farmer had testified that he had saw Bishop's stealing eggs and then saw her turn into a cat. Deliverance Hobbs who had been beaten to summation and Mary Warren, both confessed witches, testified that Bishop was one of them. A villager named Samuel Grey told the court that Bishop visited his bed at night and tormented him. A jury of matrons assigned to examine Bishop's body reported that they found an "excrescence of flesh." Several of the afflicted girls testified that Bishop's specter afflicted them and numerous other villagers described why they thought Bishop was responsible for various bits of bad luck that had befallen them. Naturally Bishop was found guilty and and she was hauled of to Gallows Hill and hanged that same day. ** ||
 * ** On the sad day of February 29, arrest warrants were given for the against of Tituba, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams and with those three people under arrest, the witch hunt descendent upon the small Salem village for ever changing their history. But did all of those poor people suffer for nothing?Research shows that the consistency of the two girls' accusations suggests strongly at the fact that the girls had worked out their stories together before had and soon after the girls' accusations Ann Putnam and Mercy Lewis were also put in a reporting about seeing "witches flying through the winter mist." also . It is believed that the first three people to stand trial on the alleged allegations of preforming “witchcraft” on the unsuspecting children of Salem were all logical choices because Tituba was known to tell the girl's stories from he native land, Good was a beggar and social misfit who lived wherever someone would house her, and Osborn was an old, quarrelsome who had not went to church for some time. This also strongly proves the point that the all of witchcraft allegations were nothing more then figment of the kid's imagination.


 * ** Over one hundred people in Salem was condeamed to Gallows Hill in 1692 which is now know as The Wtch Hunt of Salem. Most of the people died because other people went on the world of people and little kids that knew nothing about witchcraft. The people of Salem let their fear of the Devile and the unknoen rle their lives and their jugment and what do they have to show for it? Nothing but blood and death and this are the dark days of Salem's history. ** ||