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THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS The Salem Witch Trials were a series of events that occurred during 1692 in Salem, a Puritan colony in North America. Many people were accused of being witches and a large number were hanged, or died in jail because they couldn’t prove themselves innocent. These events show how the Puritans were insecure in their new home, and therefore had to accuse things that they were ignorant about of being witchcraft. When two girls, nine-year-old Elizabeth Parris and eleven-year-old Abigail Williams began to behave peculiarly and the people in their town did no know what was wrong, they quickly claimed it to be witchcraft. When the girls were questioned, they named three women, and claimed that they were the ones afflicting them. One of the women accused was Tituba, a slave from Barbados who always told the girls tales and entertained them. The event that followed was even stra