In order to save themselves from severe punishment, they concocted the hysteria and they sold it to the community, who by the way also hated some of the accused women because they were becoming the new important people, the girls sold it to the Courts, who possibly also needed notoriety.
The pastor played it up to the hilt to protect his own daughter. He knew the truth.
That was in MASS? Sounds like the beginning of the Democratic party. GET CAUGHT DOING BAD, BLAME OTHERS. MASS. is still a mess.
Pretty clear,concise summing up of the Salem witch trials. I am a decendent if Rebecca Nurse, one of three sisters caught up in the hysteria. Rebecca was hung, the second sister died in prison, if my memory serves, and the third was released at the end only to die a few months later from the effects of her imprisonment. Pretty ugly time in New England.
I think you’re getting your history confused with Tavana Brawley and Al Sharpton.