Misogynist Bullying in the Salem Witch Trials Still Echoes Today
<p>Inthe 1600s, Salem’s Courthouse was named “<a href="https://salemwitchmuseum.com/locations/salem-courthouse-in-1692-site-of/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>The Court of Oyer and Terminer</em></a><em>.</em>” Between February 1692 and May 1693, over 200 individuals in colonial Massachusetts faced accusations of witchcraft, in what would be one of the darkest chapters in American history.</p>
<p>This period of fear and injustice was fueled by a mix of fear towards outsiders, extreme <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.soscij.2010.01.008" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">religious beliefs, and societal tensions</a> nourished by ancestral misogyny, which I often refer to as the “Patriarchy Cult” in my academic papers and presentations.</p>
<p>In my research about the trials, I’ve seen that many authors still argue it all began in a community gripped by paranoia and suspicion. Sure, the conflict with France during <a href="https://historyofmassachusetts.org/king-williams-war/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">King William’s War</a> — an armed dispute between England and France in North America in the 17th century — uprooted people, creating an atmosphere of distrust, but there was more to it than that.</p>
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