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The Puritan Myth
Title: The Puritan Myth
Category: Society & Culture / Religion
Details: Words: 527 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Puritan Myth
“The Puritan Myth”
The witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts in the early sixteen hundreds was a time of uneasiness and suspicion. Anyone could easily turn in his or her neighbor on the ground of witchcraft. Someone could merely say their neighbor’s spirit had attacked them during the night, which no person can prove. Nevertheless, as a God-fearing community, the people of Salem could not think of denying the evidence, because to deny the existence …showed first 75 words of 527 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 527 total…Massachusetts had many people die over sins according to the Puritan religion. Yet the Puritans were so hypocritical that they didn’t even realize that the ones who were trying to get land, money and anything else were bigger sinners than the actual witches, if there ever were really any witches in Salem to begin with. One would think that people who are Puritan would realize this because they lived their lives by the bible.
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