banned because I don't know how I still like Christmas, I have a good reason not to

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banned because getting things makes brain go brrr i suppose

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Banned because “there are MANY WAYS OF PERSUASIOOOOOON, THERE ARE MANY MODES OF CONTROOOOOOL” is stuck in my head for the past week

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Banned because... what the heaven?!

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banned because add to cart

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Banned because I’ve never seen you before

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banned because understandable i dont yap much lmao

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Banned because you’re interrupting me while I’m gifting people

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Banned because I'm getting to many notifs

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banned because National History day: The Salem Witch Trials

Most people have heard of witches, and some people believe in them, but in this essay I’ll be writing about a time when everybody believed in witches, the Salem Witch Trials.

In 1692, Elizabeth Parris and her cousin, Abigail Williams, became ill. No medical diagnosis could be made back in the day, even though now historians believe that the girls may have been suffering from food poisoning and hallucinations, but back then there was only one explanation for the girls’ behavior, the devil. The girls were interrogated about who was possessing them until the girls blamed Tituba, a native american slave. What the girls were thinking when they said Tituba was the one who was haunting them is unknown. Though we may never truly know what was wrong with the girls, modern theories suggest that the girl’s actions were possibly brought on by epilepsy, boredom, child abuse, mental illness, or even a disease brought on by eating bread that was infected with fungus.

Today, we are always assumed innocent until proven guilty, but in the Salem witch trials it was quite the opposite. If you were accused of being a witch, you were guilty and had to prove yourself innocent. Nobody was able to prove themselves innocent of witchcraft and those who tried were executed by hanging. In order to avoid prison, or worse, execution, for being a witch, you had to promise to stop practicing witchcraft and point out another witch, who would then also be tried. This caused some women to accuse their own mothers of witchcraft in order to escape punishment.

June, 1692, the court of Court of Oyer and Terminer went to Salem to hear the cases of witchcraft. In charge of this case was the chief of justice, William Stoughton. Following the trials, William Phips chose Stoughton as chief justice of the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Perhaps due to his lack of legal training, Stougton allowed many deviations from normal courtroom procedure, including permitting private conversations between accusers and judges, allowing spectators to interrupt with their own remarks, allowing spectral evidence, and refusing to allow defense counsel for the accused.

When somebody was accused of witchcraft, three actions could prove the witch guilty. The confession of the witch, the testimony of two eyewitnesses to the acts of witchcraft, or spectral evidence. And of course, these made it difficult to prove innocence.

The disorderly and haphazard way that the Salem Witch Trials were conducted contributed to many rights that we today have as Americans. For example, the presumption that one is innocent until proven guilty, the rights to legal representation, and the cross-examination of accusers.

The Salem Witch Trials is a perfect example of injustice in American history. Once accused of witchcraft, it was nearly impossible to prove yourself innocent. And, if you refused to stand for trial, which was what Octogenarian Giles Corey did, you would go through peine forte et dure, the act of having heavy stones piled on your body until your ether agreed to stand trial or were pressed to death. Nobody was safe from being accused of witchcraft, the youngest being four-year-old Dorothy Wood.

This series of trials, prosecutions and executions of innocent people accused of practicing witchcraft took place in Colonial Massachusetts. Salem's witch trials are a defining example of intolerance and injustice in American history.

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Banned because snuh in den

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Banned because Glad You Came by The Wanted has been stuck in my head for the past week

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Banned because no is pronounced “naurrrrr”

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Banned because I like EPIC just as much as you do

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