Imagine being accused of witchcraft, knowing deep down that you are not a witch and you know nothing about being one. You just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. The feeling these girls must have had would have been terrifying.
It feels like everybody you have known your whole life is looking at you like you’re a horrible person and they can’t believe you are a witch. The look on their faces is awful, you are helpless and you are evil to them now. Either way you look at the situation, you are going to die. The town’s people would do trials on you. You pass them and that means you are not a witch, you fail them and you die. The trials really didn’t make sense though, nobody can really pass them. For example, one trial you get thrown into a river. If you float then you’re a witch. If you were to sink then your innocence was proven. The only problem was, either way if you sink or float your going to die because you are tied up and then thrown in, so it’s not like you can just swim away. The people don’t have time to save you so even if you know your not a witch and can hopefully pass the trial, you still know normally that means your life is about to come to an end. The only good thing that could come out of all of this is that if you did happen to pass it, everybody watching would at least know you’re not a witch. The Salem Witch Trials was a bad situation any way that you look at it. These people didn’t know better or think the way we do now. It is sad to know all these innocent people had to die just because someone thought they were practicing witch craft. I learned a lot reading about these trials, and now looking at it I feel sorry for all the people who died for a mistaken claim.
Everyone shouldn’t automatically be stereotyped or accused of something just because of how they look or act. So even if someone is accused of something, that doesn’t always mean that they are guilty.