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20 pages in length. The discomfort that fear and unfamiliarity breeds has lead many societies to condemn certain populations for no rational reason. Looking back into history, perhaps no other example illustrates how unmitigated alarm and ignorance can create a living hell for those on the receiving end of such prejudiced treatment as with the subject of witchcraft. While both men and women alike were fingered as witches, women suffered considerably more accusations and, therefore, more indignities. Mental illness and gender emancipation, combined with the rampant fear of an unenlightened Puritan society, represented the primary reasons why witchcraft accusations were made mostly against women. Bibliography lists 17 sources.
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unmitigated alarm and ignorance can create a living hell for those on the receiving end of such prejudiced treatment as with the subject of witchcraft. While both men and
women alike were fingered as witches, women suffered considerably more accusations and, therefore, more indignities. Mental illness and gender emancipation, combined with the rampant fear of an unenlightened Puritan
society, represented the primary reasons why witchcraft accusations were made mostly against women. II. THE PROPENSITY TOWARD WOMEN Witchcraft became a fast and furious scapegoat for a society still
grappling with the reasons why mental illness existed in the first place. The mentally ill were accused of having succumbed to spells, incantations and of having committed many sinful
offenses and crimes. They were persecuted without mercy and many of them were burned at the stake. One of the most prominent reasons for women to be locked
away as mentally ill was because of their desire to leave their husbands or establish a life of their own. This willful disrespect for social dictate landed them beside
the same people who murdered and maimed, ultimately casting upon them the same fate as those who truly were insane. September 22, 1962 was execution day for eight people in
Salem Village, Massachusetts. Their crime: allegedly practicing witchcraft and worshipping Satan. During the eight months that followed, hundreds more were accused of the same crime; those who were
convicted faced death by hanging, torture or languishing in prison. In all, nineteen people lost their lives. Looking back, historians have called this period "one of the darkest
chapters in American history" (Greening, 2003, p. PG). Indeed, the basis behind such accusations had no bearing upon what was actually the truth; rather, the townspeople were easily lead
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