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michael.aleksander
Amateur Author
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Posts: 138 | June 24th, 2008 at 12:51am The Missing Piece:
Why is it not a good thing?
It's not like I drown people to see if they're witches...
-pulls woman's head out of river-
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Missing Wings.
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 488 | June 24th, 2008 at 07:41pm I don't know, I just maybe wouldn't want to be born on the day so many died.
Hmm do you believe in reincarnation? |
michael.aleksander
Amateur Author
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Posts: 138 | June 24th, 2008 at 11:51pm No. My view is when we die, that's it.
End. Fini.  |
Missing Wings.
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 488 | June 25th, 2008 at 12:12am Well then I guess it's ok.
Anyway we're waaaaaay of subject.
Has anyone read any good books about The Salem Witch Trials? |
StarlitPanther
Writer's Block
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 45 | July 11th, 2008 at 11:17pm This topic interests me as well but I haven't done as much studying as I would like. One thing that irritates me about this subject was that many Wiccans uses Salem to point fingers at Christians, and I'm not saying Christians don't do things similar either, but those who were killed were not Wiccans that I know of. From what I have read, it had nothing to do with Wicca or Paganism. |
Mortiferous
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Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 1870 | July 12th, 2008 at 07:53pm TheKinkyShrink:No. My view is when we die, that's it.
End. Fini.
ME TOO!!
And yes, that HAD to be in all caps. Because you're sig?
Is genius. |
Mortiferous
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Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 1870 | July 12th, 2008 at 07:54pm StarlitPanther:This topic interests me as well but I haven't done as much studying as I would like. One thing that irritates me about this subject was that many Wiccans uses Salem to point fingers at Christians, and I'm not saying Christians don't do things similar either, but those who were killed were not Wiccans that I know of. From what I have read, it had nothing to do with Wicca or Paganism.
-cough- Read more -cough-
Wiccans have every right to point. Before you argue, read more. |
fool's paradise
AWOL
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 839 | July 12th, 2008 at 09:18pm MoniGoesRAWR.:Are you thinking of Joseph McCarthy?
Yeah, I think so. |
Raven T.
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Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 1931 | July 18th, 2008 at 04:36am We had to read the Crucible in school this year. I've done some research and the book seems pretty accurate. The only huge difference is the relationship between John Proctor and Abigail Williams. At the time Abigail was only about ten years old and Proctor was in his forties or fifties, so it's highly improbable that they had an intimate relationship.
The whole thing apparently started with these girls having weird fits and seizures and blaming it on the spirits of the supposed witches. Today there's speculation that the seizures may have been caused by some kind of fungus in the bread they were eating. Has anyone else ever heard that? |
Missing Wings.
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 488 | July 20th, 2008 at 10:01pm Raven T.:We had to read the Crucible in school this year. I've done some research and the book seems pretty accurate. The only huge difference is the relationship between John Proctor and Abigail Williams. At the time Abigail was only about ten years old and Proctor was in his forties or fifties, so it's highly improbable that they had an intimate relationship.
The whole thing apparently started with these girls having weird fits and seizures and blaming it on the spirits of the supposed witches. Today there's speculation that the seizures may have been caused by some kind of fungus in the bread they were eating. Has anyone else ever heard that?
Yea I heard about the bread thing but not about the relationship between John and Abigail. I think the fungus theory is pretty accurate and it would explain a lot. |
Flapjacks
Amateur Author
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Posts: 124 | July 20th, 2008 at 11:29pm The Missing Piece:Raven T.:We had to read the Crucible in school this year. I've done some research and the book seems pretty accurate. The only huge difference is the relationship between John Proctor and Abigail Williams. At the time Abigail was only about ten years old and Proctor was in his forties or fifties, so it's highly improbable that they had an intimate relationship.
The whole thing apparently started with these girls having weird fits and seizures and blaming it on the spirits of the supposed witches. Today there's speculation that the seizures may have been caused by some kind of fungus in the bread they were eating. Has anyone else ever heard that?
Yea I heard about the bread thing but not about the relationship between John and Abigail. I think the fungus theory is pretty accurate and it would explain a lot.
I would also say this could've been the cause, but I guess people back then didn't want to use science to figure it out. |
Raven T.
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Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 1931 | July 21st, 2008 at 07:00am Shino.:The Missing Piece:Raven T.:We had to read the Crucible in school this year. I've done some research and the book seems pretty accurate. The only huge difference is the relationship between John Proctor and Abigail Williams. At the time Abigail was only about ten years old and Proctor was in his forties or fifties, so it's highly improbable that they had an intimate relationship.
The whole thing apparently started with these girls having weird fits and seizures and blaming it on the spirits of the supposed witches. Today there's speculation that the seizures may have been caused by some kind of fungus in the bread they were eating. Has anyone else ever heard that?
Yea I heard about the bread thing but not about the relationship between John and Abigail. I think the fungus theory is pretty accurate and it would explain a lot.
I would also say this could've been the cause, but I guess people back then didn't want to use science to figure it out.
They probably didn't feel it was necessary. They put so much belief into the supernatural that witches was a completely plausible explantion for the occurences. |
The Sacrifice
Writer's Block
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Posts: 43 | July 27th, 2008 at 06:55pm I read a few books on it.
Very intersting. |
Angelwolf1993
Writer's Block
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 83 | August 5th, 2008 at 01:31am The Salem Witch trails is one of the most fascinating things in history in my opinon..
It was also one of the most terrifying times in life too. Anyone could blame another person for being a witch and there wasn't any way for them to prove if the person is or isn't. If a baby was born dead automatically that person would be considered as a witch. Even if there were witches they wouldn't stop by to figure out why they do what they do and see if it really was evil or not. They'll just be hanged at the end of the day.
It was just Tituba showing the girls something that her tribe did to try to predict the future. I've had to do this as a oral report and found out that Tituba was kidnapped as a little girl from a tribe. I really don't remember which tribe anymore. But history has a tendency of repeating itself...someone is going to ignore all reason and do this all over again..
Mostly in a very superstitious place... |
Missing Wings.
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Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 488 | August 7th, 2008 at 12:50am Angelwolf1993:The Salem Witch trails is one of the most fascinating things in history in my opinon..
It was also one of the most terrifying times in life too. Anyone could blame another person for being a witch and there wasn't any way for them to prove if the person is or isn't. If a baby was born dead automatically that person would be considered as a witch. Even if there were witches they wouldn't stop by to figure out why they do what they do and see if it really was evil or not. They'll just be hanged at the end of the day.
It was just Tituba showing the girls something that her tribe did to try to predict the future. I've had to do this as a oral report and found out that Tituba was kidnapped as a little girl from a tribe. I really don't remember which tribe anymore. But history has a tendency of repeating itself...someone is going to ignore all reason and do this all over again..
Mostly in a very superstitious place...
I agree, I'm thinking maybe a third world country.
Yea, I heard about the telling the future thing, I also think it had something to do with an egg. It told who they were going to marry or something like that.
I could be mixing up stories. |
Angelwolf1993
Writer's Block
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 83 | August 7th, 2008 at 02:57am The Missing Piece:Angelwolf1993:The Salem Witch trails is one of the most fascinating things in history in my opinion..
It was also one of the most terrifying times in life too. Anyone could blame another person for being a witch and there wasn't any way for them to prove if the person is or isn't. If a baby was born dead automatically that person would be considered as a witch. Even if there were witches they wouldn't stop by to figure out why they do what they do and see if it really was evil or not. They'll just be hanged at the end of the day.
It was just Tituba showing the girls something that her tribe did to try to predict the future. I've had to do this as a oral report and found out that Tituba was kidnapped as a little girl from a tribe. I really don't remember which tribe anymore. But history has a tendency of repeating itself...someone is going to ignore all reason and do this all over again..
Mostly in a very superstitious place...
I agree, I'm thinking maybe a third world country.
Yea, I heard about the telling the future thing, I also think it had something to do with an egg. It told who they were going to marry or something like that.
I could be mixing up stories.
That was considered on of the reasons why they looked through an egg...it also had to do with everyday life and their family... |
Ianto Jones
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Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 2571 | August 7th, 2008 at 09:55am I've watched a film on it.
I think it's really interesting... |
Jacob Black;;
Amateur Author
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 257 | September 12th, 2008 at 03:53am My Civics teacher is related to Rebecca Nurse, one of the elderly ladies killed in the trials. Her house is a museum, or something. Apparently she's his great x8 grandmother. |
Ianto Jones
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Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 2571 | September 24th, 2008 at 01:30pm I'm doing the cruicible for my english GSCE.
We have to write about why they done and stuff. |
ohburnsnap.
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Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 10 | October 18th, 2008 at 06:58am Raven T.:We had to read the Crucible in school this year. I've done some research and the book seems pretty accurate. The only huge difference is the relationship between John Proctor and Abigail Williams. At the time Abigail was only about ten years old and Proctor was in his forties or fifties, so it's highly improbable that they had an intimate relationship.
The whole thing apparently started with these girls having weird fits and seizures and blaming it on the spirits of the supposed witches. Today there's speculation that the seizures may have been caused by some kind of fungus in the bread they were eating. Has anyone else ever heard that? Abigail was actually 13 and John Proctor was in his 60's, and no, there really wasn't an intimate relationship between them. Arthur Miller only put that in the Crucible for dramatic purposes. Really though, the Crucible wasn't that far off on what happened.
I still think it's funny how Abigail really did run off to Boston and become a prostitute though. |
