In the town of Salem, there was a mass escape. It wasn't a disease epidemic (some might have said it was), it was a witch epidemic. These witches weren't really witches, however. This event happened because people had grudges against each other, or because they were simply too afraid to think about what they were actually saying and doing. Some people might even have an illness and didn't know what it was, so they blamed it on witches. Their law was that anyone who was a witch was thrown into prison and then had to be tried. At first, only a few people were considered witches, but then everyone blamed people. There were even three girls who said they saw witches haunting people and making them sign the devil's book. It started with the girls accusing people who couldn't defend themselves, but when the girls started accusing well-known and well-liked people, people began to believe that these "witches weren't real." The witches that were in the town of Salem weren't really there. In fact, the witches were never there. When people in the town of Salem began to be charged, only a small number of them had been charged. At first, only people who couldn't defend themselves. Many of them had no one to defend them, so they had no chance of being innocent. More and more people started getting accused and everyone started turning against each other. It got to the point that the prisons started to fill up and they could no longer accommodate people. This is another reason why the witches of Salem were not witches, but innocent people who had been taken from their homes and thrown into prison. How could so many people be witches? This was not the case. Many... middle of paper ... even the accusers have had to live with the fact that they ruined someone's life. Everyone was hurt in some way during the trials, some more than others, but people will always remember those who were hurt and those who lost everything. People have now mostly forgotten and forgiven the accusers who falsely accused people and changed their lives, and I hope nothing like this happens again. Many people were hurt and affected during the Salem witch trials and some were even killed for being falsely accused, and the effects I listed did not match the tragedy that occurred in the town of Salem. Trial 1692." Famous American Trials. UMKC School of Law, nd Web. April 06, 2014. Schanzer, Rosalyn. Witches!: The Absolutely True Story of the Salem Disaster. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2011. Print.