Martha Carrier (Woman or Witch

Martha Carrier, indicted for bewitching and cursing dozens of persons. I believe that she was framed by the Puritans. Puritans believed in witches and their ability to harm others. They defined witchcraft as entering into a compact with the devil in exchange for certain powers to do evil. Thus, witchcraft was considered a sin because it denied God’s superiority and a crime because the witch could call up the Devil in his or her …showed first 75 words of 292 total…

…showed last 75 words of 292 total…that two years prior he lost a cow and said that Martha had bewitched and cursed it. Many people said they were bewitched and cursed by Martha’s ways. As many as eleven people testified against Martha. After all these facts, one can assume that Martha Carrier was indeed not a witch. Nevertheless, the horde of Salem townsfolk persecuted the faultless women. Puritan extremists essentially, brutally murdered by burning, drowning and hanging many innocent women.