A Delusion of Satan - The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials

A Delusion of Satan - The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials

Comments
1. The two children the Pasture Parris had were both afflicted by the witchcraft the most. Even to the point where doctors said this is the work of Satan.
2. The affliction of the children could have been caused by a number of things like Parris himself had scared the kids by saying that evil is all around them or it could have been about the girl's desperate cry for attention that may have caused them to unconsciously continue the hysteria.
3. Witchcraft itself was said by the Puritan's to be an evil religion when it is actually based on loving mother earth and honoring nature by having a God for everything.
4. The belief that witchcraft is evil was more than likely based on the Puritans ideas of all other religions being wrong which lead to false blame and misunderstanding of the Religion.
5. It seemed that the girls where deceiving their parents without knowing it. Then because everyone believed them the girls started to say that they could see other people in their visions at night.
Questions
1. Do you think that doctors back then actually knew what they were doing?
2. What did Parris do that scared the children so much?
3. Was witchcraft actually a evil based religion?
4. Do you think the girls are telling the truth?
Vocab
1. Satan.The chief evil spirit; the great adversary of humanity; the devil.
2. Religion.A set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe.
3. Visions.A mental image produced by the imagination.
Literary Terms.
1. Dramatic Irony. We know that the people accused are more than likely going to die but they don't.
2. Verbal Irony. The Puritans believe that witchcraft was founded for evil purposes even though it was actually the exact opposite.
Outline
This just shows that witchcraft was just make believe and that it was thought to be evil even though the religion is founded on the belief of good treatment of the world.