Witchcraft is scary business. During the Salem Witch Trials, did you know there were a total of 24 people killed for being accused of witchcraft? Recently, I visited a website that actually took me through, step by step, to see what it would have been like to have been accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trial. It was absolutely insane. It started out of no where. People started acting strange. Then, the people of the city blamed ME for the reason some were acting so preposterously. They thought I was a witch! People of my own neighborhood, my friends, and even my family turned against me. Was I a witch? I had never remembered of turning my soul over to the devil. Never have I wanted to, or never will I.
As soon as the trial began, the girls of the town that started this nonsense started going crazy. If I clenched my fists, they acted as if I was strangling them. If I bit my lip, their lips flowed with blood. Their legs would even go crazy when I would simply move them. I had seen witchcraft before, and I knew for a fact I was not a witch. How could they be accusing me of this? One girl even started FLYING. She stated that my specter was making her act in such ways. I turned my head, and when I looked back there was a girl with a knife in her back claiming that I had done this horrible thing; even though a little boy was standing right before us telling the judge he gave the girls the knife a few days back. This was absolutely insane.
They asked. Did I tell a lie and live? Or tell the truth and die? I spoke the truth. “I am not a witch.”
I was proven guilty and had to be put into jail. I knew the consequences. The next morning I would be hanged. I would be hanged for something I had absolutely nothing to do with. Witchcraft is a horrible thing. But, I was kind of glad to get out of all that mess. After all, I’m in a better place now.
Before following along this internet story, I had no idea about the Salem Witch Trails. Sure, I believe in the devil and demons. I know that the devil and his workers can do some pretty rotten things in this world. I didn’t, however, know that 24 real, actual people were killed for being accused of witchcraft. Harmless people like you and me. The treatment of these people wasn’t fair at all. It was basically like the person being trialed didn’t even have a chance. The judge before you even walked in what the choice was going to be. Although there were 24 horrible deaths in Salem, the town finally got cleaned up. Witchcraft and other things of that sort were hardly talked about since then. Even though I underwent that horrifying experience, I can’t even imagine if I were to be accused in my actual life now. Would I lie to live? Or tell the truth and die? What would you do?
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