The Salem Witch Crisis began in 1691, in Salem Village, Massachusett. Pg. 96 of the textbook states that “more than 95% of all legal accusations of witchcraft occurred in New England.” One case deals with Samuel Parris’s (the village’s minister) daughter, Betty, and niece, Abigail Williams, got sick however, not the runny nose and fever sick. The Salem Witch Crisis Summary explains that the girls complained of, ‘’pinching, prickling sensations, knifelike pains, and the feeling of being choked,” pg. 97 of the textbook adds that the “young girl's limbs twisted into strange contortions, as they pointed out the witches who tourchered them.” Later, surprisingly three additional girls complained of the same symptoms. There was not a scientific explanation
