Mysteries of the World : City of Salem is the Magic City ?
Who says that there is a magic city in Hogsmeade? It turns out that not only there is a magic city in the Harry Potter novels written by author JK Rowling. Magic City really there, It is in the United States, or more precisely in the State of Massachusetts. The city has been officially designated as a city of magic by Michael Dukakis, governor of Massachusetts at the time. The city was designated as the magic city because in this city, an event that never happened was terrible (surely are associated with magic). That the events of The Salem Witch Trials, the event where more than 150 residents of this town were arrested, tried, and convicted only because considered practicing witchcraft.
City of Salem was founded in the year 1629 In 1641 the English law began to be applied in this city (at that time, the United States is made up of British colonies) and one of the laws that are set in this city is that everything is related to witchcraft is a gross violation. In 1688, Martha Goodwin, a young local resident there fight with a washerwoman named Goode Glover that sparked the emergence of witchcraft ini.Martha then got a strange disease, followed two brothers and his sister experienced the same thing. Glover was later arrested because deemed to have practiced witchcraft on the Goodwin family.
Then a minister named Cotton Mather met to persuade Glover Glover to immediately admitted his actions, because if not, then he will be sentenced to hang by a local court. But Glover face instead be spooky and scary then the new year 1692, Abigail Williams (11 years old) and Elizabeth Parris (9 years) suffering from the same disease with the Goodwin family children four years ago. Hose then a girl named Ann Putnam Jr. and several other girls were experiencing the same thing. In mid-February 1692, a doctor considers what is experienced by the residents of Salem was the result of witchcraft.
Tituba, a slave woman identified as odd because he had to feed the dog a piece of homemade pie pastry called magic a few days earlier. Several other residents accuse Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne as witches. John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin examine Tituba local police, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne on that charge. Tituba confessed to practicing witchcraft obtained from Goode Glover and Sarah Osborne.
Then there are three people named Mercy Lewis, Mary Walcott and Mary Warren confessed contracted a strange disease of Ann Putnam Jr. Ann accuses Martha Cory is a witch, so does Abigail Williams accuse Rebecca Nurse. Deputy Samuel Brabrook also capture Dorcas Good are then examined by both police and Corwin Hathrone, they also capture the Rebecca Nurse.
Furthermore, Elizabeth Proctor and Sarah Cloyce (sister of Rebecca Nurse) accused of being a witch, after Sarah Cloyce all-out defense of his brother and said that her brother was not a witch. The same thing happened to John (husband of Elizabeth Proctor) as he defends his wife and make him the first man accused of witchcraft. Even this action recriminations growing and making a lot of people arrested (both men and women) and put in jail.
Dated May 27, 1692, the state of Salem city heats up. The court also held. Bridget Bishop was the first woman on trial for Elizabeth Booth (women who accused witch) proved to have strange symptoms, Bridget Bishop-was executed by hanging. Then Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, Sarah Good and Sarah Wildes were tried and they were hanged on Gallows Hill. Then George Jacobs Sr., Martha Carrier, George Burroughs, John Willard, John and Elizabeth Proctor declared guilty and they were also hanged, except Elizabeth Proctor because she was pregnant. Followed Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Dorcas Hoar and Mary Bradbury. Witch accusations grew hear the presence of Giles Cory.
17 September 1692, Margaret Scott, Wilmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Abigail Faulkner, Rebecca Earnes, Mary Lacy, Ann Foster and Abigail Hobbs were tried and sentenced to hang. What happened to Giles Cory is more sadistic and horrible, man was pinned under a large stone to death because he refused to admit his mistake and it takes two days until he died. A few days later, Martha Cory, Margaret Scott, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Willmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell and Mary Parker were hanged.
Dated October 3, 1692, the Reverend Increase Mather, president of Harvard College (the father of the Rev. Cotton Mather) announced how the use of evidence in court magic. But Phipps said that the evidence was not applicable in witchcraft trials. In the fall, Phipps freeing some suspect that not enough evidence. Judge Stoughton had orders from the Governor to continue the litigation witchcraft and hanged the women even though they are pregnant, because that Judge Stoughton resigned his position as city judge.
Finally, 49 of the 52 suspects were later released, including Tituba was sold to a new master. In the summer Phipps apologize to all the remaining suspects in prison. Until 1697 the city court admitted a mistake had been imprisoned and executed many people without clear evidence and a day of fasting and soul-searching for the tragedy in Salem. They also declared that the year 1692 as the year without a law.
Now, City of salem later became a tourist town full of supernatural values. The Salem Witch Trials event is still remembered and visitors can still see the city of Salem. As in the Witch House, the home belonged to Judge Jonathan Corwin, one of the judges in the Salem Witchcraft Trials event. The building is now owned by the Department of Parks and Recreation Salem city and used as a tourist destination complete with a tour of the program, historical tours, and architectural tours. In addition, tourists can also visit the Salem Witch Museum. In this museum visitors really like taken back to the terrible events. In the museum there is a drama theater, narration and dialogue as well as footage of the event proceedings. There is also a tour of the jail cells witnessed made complete with statues of the original human-like convicts.
Now in this town that many residents of the city of Salem which is a Witch, or more suitable referred to as paranormal. but even so, do not hope you can find a witch who looked like Harry Potter here except on Halloween night.
Mysteries of the World : City of Salem is the Magic City ?
