UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CUENCA

CENTRO DE IDIOMAS

HOMEWORK
‘‘BRUJAS DE SALEM’’
NAME:
MISHELL ROSALES Y.
TEACHER:
MARIA CECILIA GONZALES
COURSE:
INTERMEDIATE 1
THEME: SALEM WITCHES
The Salem witchcraft trials this was a series of local hearings,
later formal judicial processes were given, all these processes
were carried out by the authorities with the aim of
prosecuting them and later, in case of guilt, punishing crimes
of witchcraft in the counties of Essex, Suffolk and Middlesex
in the then English colony of Massachusetts in ancient times
everything that had to do with the Catholic religion was very
governed.
Witchcraft trials were not unusual in the British Colonies. The
first recorded case was Alse Young, in Connecticut, in 1647.
Spaced by years between 1647 and 1692, about twenty other
cases occurred in New England, with the main focus being on
Boston and Springfield; however, they were isolated
elements, sometimes occurring every three or four years, and
no more than two accused at a time, each time these cases
were taken into account to carry out legal proceedings and
are found guilty of the witchcraft they carried out.
Los juicios comenzaron con las acusaciones de Betty Parris,
hija del Reverendo Samuel Parris, y su prima, Abigail
Williams. Las primeras órdenes de arresto se firmaron el 29
de febrero de 1692 y tres mujeres fueron
arrestadas: Tituba, Sarah Osborne y Sarah Good. Tituba era
una esclava en la casa de los Parris Sarah Osburne era una
terrateniente que se había granjeado el odio de sus vecinos a
través de sus escasas demostraciones de fe ante la
comunidad; y Sarah Good era una indigente que se
encontraba embarazada al momento de su arresto.
Si bien Osburne quien estaba demasiado enferma como para
siquiera subir al estrado y Good proclamaron su inocencia
durante todo el proceso, fue el testimonio de Tituba lo
suficientemente escuchado como para poder condenar a las
tres. De acuerdo a Marion Starkey en su libro, Tituba buscaba
con su testimonio el alejar la atención del tribunal de su
esposo, John Indian, a quien algunos de los pobladores de
Salem acusaban como uno de los que provocaban aflicciones
entre los vecinos.