Posted on Mar 1, 2018
Tituba: Accused and Accuser in the Salem Witch Trials
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On March 1, 1692 three women were arrested in Salem, Massachusetts for witchcraft. The confession of a slave woman named Tituba grew from an initial accusation of two young girls to hundreds. When the hysteria finally burned itself out, twenty people had been executed. After the trials, Tituba recounted saying she had been beaten into confessing. Arthur Miller used these events to write the play The Crucible which describes how false accusations and fear contribute to hysteria and persecution. COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen F. SGT John " Mac " McConnell SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen COL John McClellan SMSgt Lawrence McCarter MAJ James Woods SPC Woody Bullard Sgt Wayne Wood PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth MSG Andrew White SFC Shirley Whitfield CSM Charles Hayden Capt Dwayne Conyers LTC (Join to see) SSG Jon Hill SPC Margaret Higgins LTC (Join to see)
Tituba: Accused and Accuser in the Salem Witch Trials
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SGT (Join to see) There is a theory that initially the young girls were suffering from ergot posing (a fungus that can grow in rye and grains and produces lysergic acid a componet of LSD). Later greed became involved in who was accused in an attempt to take land and get rid of undesirable people before the hysteria stopped. The practice of forcing the accused to confess and name others was the chief catalyst that drove Auther Miller to using The Crucible as an allegory about the MacCarthyism of the fifties.
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
It is amazing through History how God was used as an excuse to commit evil acts against other people. If anyone thinks that problem has passed, it hasn't ! What many people have done in the name of religion in most religions was actually contrary to that religion's teachings. It's people doing the Devil's work and not even in some case being aware that's what they were doing or just being so evil it just provided an excuse to do harm to others. You mention profit and Yes that has been and still is being done for outright "Greed."
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There is zero evidence for devils and the 1000's of gods who have been worshipped.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
it is both against the main teachings of moths faiths but it is also withing specific teachings that contradict the main teachings. For example witch murder and killing her it is are agains the main teaching of Christianity but specific instructions justifying them also exist. Islam has the same problem. That is why I questions the sources of enspIred texts, would all powerful god be so sloppy?
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