Town of Salem

Salem is one of the most famous city of United States of America. Everyone knows the town of Salem because of the witch cases that happened three centuries ago

The history books report that, a long time ago, Mister Parris (the priest of Salem) was preocupated about his child (Betty) because she was having  a series of strange spasms, petrified on the bed and was refusing to eat. There were not many resources in this little town, however there was an old doctor who was called to diagnose the disease, attested to the grounded father that the girl was bewitched and was nothing left for them to do but a good and sincere prayer. The conclusion of the doctor was that a witch was responsible for the disease of his child.

Betty was the first that start presenting the symptoms, but, later, her friends started too. They began to roll on the ground, ding, salivate and a lot of other things. The city, finally contracted an investigator who would be responsible to search informations and catch the witch. The grils said to the investigator that all that was happening in that little village was because of a voodoo ritual that they saw Tituba (black slave who had come from the West Indies) do.

When placed in a special court, chaired by Judge S. Sewall, and surveyed by Corwin and Hathorne judges, the girls began to point interchangeably to several people who were in the room just as curious. The most sensational testimony was the slave Tituba, who not only confessed her practices strange as said several others in the community also used to do it.

From that moment, the town that was already under severe strain was transformed. An obsessive behavior corrupted all the citzens. A wave of accusations devastated the village. Neighbors denounced, husbands suspicious of their wives and wives suspicious of their husbans , longtime friends turned enemies. The final result was that more than 300 people were accused and more than 19 got lynched.

Eduardo Finck, Augusto Andrade e João Pereira