The trials started with Elizabeth Parris, the daughter of Reverend Samuel Parris, his 11 year old niece, and their 11 year old friend. There are many alleged reasons for the witchcraft chaos, but the main contributor was Reverend Parris, “who the people of Salem generally thought of as greedy and rigid…” (“History of Witches”). Nineteen people were hanged as witches during this time known as the Salem Witch Trials. The town remained ashamed of the trials for hundreds of years until the release of the TV series Bewitched and the novel The Crucible, which is about the Salem witch trials, helped the town experience an economic resurgence (“History of
The trials started with Elizabeth Parris, the daughter of Reverend Samuel Parris, his 11 year old niece, and their 11 year old friend. There are many alleged reasons for the witchcraft chaos, but the main contributor was Reverend Parris, “who the people of Salem generally thought of as greedy and rigid…” (“History of Witches”). Nineteen people were hanged as witches during this time known as the Salem Witch Trials. The town remained ashamed of the trials for hundreds of years until the release of the TV series Bewitched and the novel The Crucible, which is about the Salem witch trials, helped the town experience an economic resurgence (“History of