The myths of witches in America
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Myths are somewhat heroic or monstrous that have been talked about in one way or another but we did not know if it really happened or not.
In the 17 century the American people are afraid from a "Mythes" of witch beacause a women has convulsion and people are think she's posseded . This is nammed the puritanism the principal history is the witches of salem. The puritains are dressed in plain dark clothes .Many American colonists brought over from Europe a belief in witches. In 1692, a group of girls from Salem, Massachusets , became strangely ill. They started having convulsion, experienced physical pain, complained of fever, claimed to have horrible visions and uttered blasphemous screams.
Less, we are in the 20th century the witch-hunters, the crucible is set in 1692, during the Salem witch trials. At the time of its first performance in Jnuary 1953, critics regarded Miller's play as direct attack on the policy initiated by United States senator Joseph McCarthy to fight Communism; The crucible is still seen today as a powerful depction of how intolerance and hysteria can tear a community appart.
For conclusion, in the 17 century a lot off Puritan are accused many people to be witches because they have some problem but there are not witch at all, the accused people are killed or hitted .
There is also a lot of people who were tortured or killed because the Americans thought some people were spies communists when they were innocent. There was a lot of people mistreated for nothing.
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