Salem Witch Trials
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
By Lauren Ayube
In 1630, about ten years after the Pilgrims traveled to the New World, a group of people called the Puritans made their own voyage from England. They traveled to find a place where they could set up their own church and run it their own way. Led by a man named John Winthrop, the Puritans settled near what would become Boston. They called it the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Storyboard Description
Storyboard depicting the events of the Salem Witch Trials
Storyboard Text
- Strange Things Begin Happening
- What is happening?
- I have no idea!
- Who To Blame
- It's them!
- Hunts and Hysteria
- You're a witch!
- You are one of them!
- Guilty!
- The Trials
- You are found guilty!
- No!
- An Ending to the Madness
- You are free to go.
- In January 1692, young Betty Parris and her cousin Abigail began acting strangely. They spoke words that didn't make sense, and twisted their bodies into weird shapes. Betty's father called the doctor, and the girls were diagnosed as being bewitched!
- The young girls said that three women in town had cast a spell on them. The women were already not well liked by the community; one was a Native American who played fortune telling games, one was homeless, and one rarely went to church.
- Soon, Salem and villages around Salem were in complete panic. People were blaming anything odd on witchcraft, and hundreds of people were being accused of being witches.
- The local Puritan pastors began trials to determine who was and wasn't a witch. There were a number of tests that were done on the accused, and if they failed, they were put in jail or even killed.
- The public finally began to realize that innocent people were being brought to trial, and the governor stopped the trials in May of 1693. Those in jail were set free.
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