The Salem Witchcraft
Salem is located in Massachusetts. It was called as Salem Village. Its population was around 600 people or 100 households. It all started when weird behaviors of two young girls, the daughter, Betty, and the niece, Abigail Williams, of the Salem Village minister, Reverend Samuel Parris, was noticed.
The legal processes of witchcraft cases were not reasonable. The afflicted person makes a complaint to the Magistrate. They don't even need an evidence to prove it. The Magistrate will then issue an arrest warrant of the accused person. That person is then arrested and kept into custody. Two or more Magistrates investigates or examines the person by asking questions. The case is then presented to the Grand Jury. Whoever seen the person before acting weirdly or whoever suspects the person enters in as evidences. If the accused is indicted by the Grand Jury, he or she is tried before the Court of Oyer and Terminer (the Anglo-French name, meaning to hear......
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