Salem Village, a small town in Massachusetts, is a very peaceful society. There are little arguments, like when half the village agreed to have a church there and half the population doesn't like the idea. Yet it was a very quiet village. The people there are puritans. Puritans are strict Christian believers. They believe that women and children should be seen, not heard. They believe that devils and witches have ghosts and that ghosts can attack people. Puritans blame witches for bad harvests, the deaths of others, and terrible events. It was still a happy village, until 1692, when madness came to the village of Salem, Massachusetts. One day, the priest's daughters began to behave strangely. They weren't actually behaving strangely, they were attacking everywhere. They screamed, fell, twisted their bodies into awkward positions and hurt themselves. In 1692, the only reasonable explanation was that the ghosts were harming them. Specters can be initiated by witches and that means there are witches in this village. Before long, more and more girls between the ages of 6 and 20 were attacked by specters. People were worried. Eventually, they concluded that there are witches in their society, and they were determined to find them. In February 1692, the girls who were attacked by the ghosts called 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 were witches. Tituba was a Caribbean maid. Since there was racism back then, she was considered a witch because of her race. When Sarah Good was in court, she pleaded innocent, but no one believed her. The girls who were attacked by the ghosts screamed in pain, ...... middle of paper ...... they are lying, but the other girls who lied said that even the girls who told the truth they were witches, so those who told the truth said they were innocent and were saved. This adversity that I compromised was caused by the pressure of other villagers. Imagine five students who say their money was stolen by someone at the school. The only logical way out of this situation is to blame others to take the spotlight away from you. Even if no one stole money, people would start doing it. This is more or less the same case, only the Salem witch trials deal with people's lives while this fictional event could get you detention or suspension from school. The Salem witch trials are not only something to remember in history, but they can also teach us a lesson. I conclude that the lesson in this event is not to lie. It can go from one heartbreak to the death of sixteen people.