Witches : The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem

                                                               By: Rosalyn Schanzer

     Witches were known for evil for many years. They were told to be powerful females who the assistants of the devil. But what does witches have to do with Salem. Well you'll find out.
      Salem is a very superstitious place. In February 1692 two girls started to have fevers and they started to twitch. There jaws were snapping and they felt like they were being pinched and pricked with needles. The girls blamed many people that there spirits did this to them and the people they blamed were sent to trail of many months and eventually executed.
     I think the Salem Witch Trials was stupid. They executed people with no proof that they did these such things. In one of the trails the book said that one of  the defendant stabbed someone. There was proof of a broken piece of the blade on the floor with blood on it. They found the person with the handle of the knife and the person said that it was his and the blood was his too. The judges said he should have been more careful and the defendant was sent to death for stabbing a person and witchcraft.
     I think this is stupid because people were executed even though they didn't do any such thing to the girls.