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Essay / Salem Witch Trials: A Dark Chapter in American History
Their first case was Bridget Bishop and on June 10 she was found guilty and hanged at Gallows Hill (Blumberg). Another trial was that of Martha Corey. Friday, March 11, 1692 was the day Salem fasted and prayed. That day, Reverend Parris asked the girls to reveal another witch. They found their next victim, and her name was Martha Corey. She was a new member of the congregation. She replied sarcastically. The accusers acted in agony and acted only to be forced by an invisible power to imitate the witch's movement. "On Monday, March 21, they decide on Corey's exam." She ended up denying the accusations and since they couldn't prove it, so they sent her to prison (The Salem Witch Trials, 1692). After all this, following the accused, Governor Phipps, after his own wife was questioned for witchcraft, banned further arrests, released many accused witches, and dissolved the Oyer court and End the October 29. In May 1693, he pardoned all those in prison for witchcraft. But the damage was done; 19 of them were handed over to Gallows Hill, a 71-year-old man was pressed to death and the rest died in prison waiting to be killed.