Historians of the Salem tragedy are divided over the question of whose behavior needs to be explained: the town leaders or the supposedly bewitched accusers. A Fever in Salem focuses exclusively on the latter. "People of all cultures and ages," Carlson writes, "create explanations for phenomena they do not understand" (72)...
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Where court transcripts and other sources of the time describe "fits," the author sees "convulsions;" when records use the phrase "spectral visions," Carlson takes this to mean "hallucinations." These small but important adjustments to terminology sharpen the author's focus: what disease creates these symptoms? Her answer is "encephalitis lethargica," or sleeping sickness...
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Causes Of The Salem Witch Craft Trials In addition, crude medical techniques, constant food poisoning, and unsanitary conditions killed many Puritans. (In the Trials, dead people and dead livestock were used as evidence of witchcraft...	8 / 1982
Salem Witch Trials Meet six individuals whose lives were lost or forever changed by the witch hunts. Throughout these stories, you'll get a firsthand look at the events through primary sources, from letters to trial transcripts...	2 / 548
The Salem Witch Trial One of the major cause of the Salem Witchcraft trials was superstition, an "irrational belief or practice resulting from ignorance or fear of the unknown" (www...	3 / 793
Tituba: "Scenes Of Schizophrenic, Ego Centric, Paranoiac, Prima Donnas" Of course, nobody had anticipated the girls being caught... At first, the girls involved were being accused of witchcraft, but Abigail Williams convinced everyone that they had been under Tituba's spell...	2 / 554