Salem Village, a small town in Massachusetts, is a very peaceful society. There are small arguments, like when half the village agreed to have a church there and half the hoi polloi don't like the idea. However, it was a very quiet village. The people there are puritans. Puritans are devout Christian believers. They believe that women and children should be seen and not heard. They believe that devils and witches have ghosts and that these ghosts can attack people. The Puritans blamed bad harvests, the deaths of others, and terrible events on witches. It was still a peaceful village, until in 1692 madness came to Salem Village, Massachusetts. One day the priest's daughters began to behave strangely. Actually, they weren't acting weird, they were getting angry all over the place. They screamed, fell, twisted their bodies into uncomfortable positions and injured themselves. In 1692, the only reasonable explanation was that specters were harming them. Wraiths can be initiated by witches, which means there are witches in this village. Soon, more and more girls aged 6 to 20 were being attacked by specters. People were worried. Eventually, they concluded that there were witches in their society and they were determined to find the witches. In February 1692, girls who were attacked by specters named three witches: Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba. Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne were rude and unpopular in the village, so it was easy to say they are witches. Tituba was a servant from the Caribbean. Because there was racism at the time, she was considered a witch because of her race. When Sarah Good was in court, she claimed her innocence, but no one believed her. The girls who were attacked by specters screamed in pain, ...... middle of paper ...... they are lying, but the other girls who lied claimed that the girls who told the truth were also witches, so the truth tellers said they were innocent and they were saved. This adversity that I compromised was caused by pressure from other villagers. Imagine five students who claim their money was stolen by someone at school. The only logical way out of this situation is to blame others to distract attention from you. Even if no one stole the money, people would start doing it. It's pretty much the same case, only the Salem witch trials deal with people's lives when this imaginary event could land you in detention or suspended from school. The Salem Witch Trials are not only something to remember in history, they can also teach us a lesson. I conclude that the lesson of this event is not to lie. It can range from heartbreak to the death of sixteen people.