By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-22 12:16:07 | Updated at 2024-09-30 07:31:34
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Salem Witch Trials—On this Day
On this day ^ | 9/22/2024 | Baker
Posted on 09/22/2024 4:51:03 AM PDT by Phoenix8
Perhaps the most notorious case of mass hysteria in colonial America, the Salem witch trials saw around 200 people accused of witchcraft, with 19 found guilty and executed. Another man was crushed to death for refusing to plead, while five others died in jail.
The incident began in February 1692 when a group of young girls claimed to have been possessed by the devil and accused other women of being witches. Hysteria spread through colonial Massachusetts and a special court was convened to hear trials of those accused.
By September public opinion turned against the trials and they eventually closed early in 1693. The cases became notorious and were interpreted by later generations as a warning sign against the dangers of religious fanaticism, isolation and lapses in due process. In 1711 the convictions of twenty-two people were reversed by the courts and their families were given monetary compensation.
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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; History; Religion
KEYWORDS: groupthink; hysteria; salem; witchcraft
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On this day 8 people were executed in the largest mass hanging for being WITCHES In Massachusetts (8 of 20 total victims).
It occurs to me there are parallels to today. We can’t imagine how people could be so stupid as to believe in witch craft. Yet today we see children being castrated (chemically and some say surgically) and grown men with 5 o’clock shadows in dresses selling beer on TV, mass marches to support terrorists, mass riots to support slain criminals.
In both eras of US history we also see elite Ivy League colleges deeply involved with these hysterical movements. At least 4 Harvard graduates being actors in the Salem Witchcraft trails (Magistrates etc). Apparently highly intelligent people are just if not more susceptible to group think than regulars.
1 posted on 09/22/2024 4:51:03 AM PDT by Phoenix8
To: Phoenix8
I have to agree with every word of your personal comments, for I was about to make similar remarks.
Today’s mass hysteria also includes the fear Trump will take away our democracy. A belief that is so twisted in its concept only the dumbest of the stupid could possibly believe it. This bunch is willing to let our country be taken over by millions upon millions of illegals so they can vote for someone that will take away our culture and lead us into a totalitarian state.
Those Witch Trials of yesteryear have nothing on us.
2 posted on 09/22/2024 5:10:35 AM PDT by redfreedom (May God save us from what the Democrats do in the name of good.)
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