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

Comments
1. Right from the start this book shows you how ridiculous the Salem Witch Trials were.
2. The Salem which trials were fueled by a church pastor who scared and made his daughter Abigail Parris troubled for the rest of her life. originally it was said a slave named Tituba started it but this is speculation.
3. Salem was a very small town which was out right pure in Puritan beliefs maybe if it wasn't the situation would not has been as bad. the Puritans radical beliefs caused them to dole out hard punishments to people like for example it says that a man on the Sabbath after three years at sea kissed his wife and was then forced to sit out on a rock for two hours in the cold.
4. The witch hunt ideas had started within England so naturally being apart of a New England colony the hunt started.
5. The two main accusers in the trials one being Abigail actually was practicing fortune telling.
Questions
1.What is the main thing this book does from the beginning?
2.Who was the main cause of the Salem Witch Trials and the one who got everyone involved?
3.What does the fact that the Puritans punished a man just for kissing his wife on the Sabbath?
4.what was one of the major accuser's in the trials practicing?
Vocabulary.
1.Witch. A person, now esp. a woman, who professes or is supposed to practice magic, esp. black magic or the black art; sorceress. .
2.Sabbath. the first day of the week, Sunday, similarly observed by most Christians in commemoration of the Resurrection of Christ.
3.Trial. the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact.
Literary terms
1.setting. Salem between 1691 and 1693.
2.situational irony. One of the accusers was actually practicing fortune telling.
Outline
1. This book's beginning was very interesting showing the madness that was the Salem Witch Trials beginning.