Some historians view these events as arising from rivalries between churches led by the town ministers Lawson, Bayley, and Burroughs, and the village minister Samuel Parris, who was also opposed by the Village Committee over land and taxation issues.
Some historians view these events as arising from rivalries between churches led by the town ministers Lawson, Bayley, and Burroughs, and the village minister Samuel Parris, who was also opposed by the Village Committee over land and taxation issues. One fatality from these occurrences resulted from an attempt to get a confession by piling stones on the chest of Giles Cordy, and the supposed activities of Sarah Osburn, Sarah Good, and Tituba were named the cause of the erratic behaviors of some adolescent girls. Eventually implicating about 150 people, FTP, name these 1692 events in which Puritan preachers in Massachusetts persecuted "agents of the Devil".
Some historians view these events as arising from rivalries between churches led by the town ministers Lawson, Bayley, and Burroughs, and the village minister Samuel Parris, who was also opposed by the Village Committee over land and taxation issues.
{Salem Witch Trials} [accept anything involving Salem, witchery, and justice proceedings]