1U.S. HISTORY
Question One
The first question in this scenario deals with the hysteria that was created in the Salem
village. One of the little girls in the village saw an ominous thing in the glass like a specter that
looked like a coffin (Davidson and Lytle 1992). This image signified that something bad as
surely going to happen. Betty, the youngest girl in the scene had begun to say that she was
feeling different sensations like knifelike pains, prickling, getting choked and some others. This
created the hysteria among people in on the Salem village. This carried the message that
something bad was surely going to happen very soon. This was completely a correct assumption
since three more girls had become victims of this kind of feelings (Davidson and Lytle 1992).
These little girls were involved in this incident and Reverend Parris found out through his
experience that it was an effect of bewitchment. Many doctors and ministers from Church had
been brought in so actual reasons for this kind of strange behavior could be understood (Upham
2017). A neighbor of the girl Mary Sibley accused that she became a victim of sorcery and she
suggested implementing New England folklore to find it out. The symptoms of the girl went
from bad to worse since she became afraid.
Question Two
There are some positive and negative points of pleading guilty to witchcraft. Salem
Village in 1692 was such a microcosmic one that almost everyone was aware of this. People who
were accused of witchcraft could not escape from Salem village since much courage and
influence was needed to escape (Upham 2017). In some cases some girls made this accusation on
their mothers and this became a huge problem in that village. Those women getting accused of
witchcraft had to go through tremendous amount torment. However, this meant that accusing

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