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The Salem Witch-Hunt & the Red Scare
The Salem witch-hunt was the hunt for witches in Salem, MA, in 1692. Salem Villagers were Puritans, like most Puritans in those days the villagers believed in witches and witchcraft. Their definition of witch craft was “entering into a pact with the devil in exchange for certain powers to do evil. ...
The 1692 witch-hunt hysteria was started when Reverend Samuel Parris’ daughter and Abigail Williams started having fits of convulsion, screaming, and hallucination. ... After this began studios became very cautious about their products and their actors, so they would not be accused, just associating with a suspected “Red” could ruin a career.
Many of the politicians who lead the hunt for Communist did it mostly for political gain; the most notorious of them was Sen. ...
The Salem witch-hunt and the Red Scare are similar in many ways. One person orchestrated each, Cotton Mather started the Salem witch-hunt and Sen. Joseph McCarthy started the Red Scare. ... In both “witch-hunts” to lie and confess was considered the way to salvation. The 19 men and women of the Salem witch-hunts were killed for refusing to confess being a witch.
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