Salem Witch Trials

During my Salem witch trial encounter I learned that several innocent civilians were hanged only because of what some one had accused them of. In most cases, it is better to tell the truth than to lie then keep having to lie to stay out of even more trouble. In the Salem witch trials it was different. In order to avoid being executed, some people had falsely confessed to witchcraft, while others would stay truthful to not be hated by the town, but they paid for it when they were executed. I also learned that twenty five people were executed during the Salem witch trials. Nineteen “witches” were hung while five infants died in prison. There was one defendant that did not take the plea in court, and was tortured to death. When the witch trials got out of hand Reverend Increase Mather, who was a president of Harvard College at the time, said that "Ten suspected witches should escape, than one innocent person should be condemned." At the same time, Governor William Phips was overcome with disgust about the accusation toward his wife about being a witch. In my experience of the tour through the time of the Salem witch trials, I found out that it didn’t matter if you were telling the truth or not, because if other people are telling lies that everyone else believes then you don’t stand a chance of living. On my tour I pleaded innocent and was about to be set free when one of the people at the trials started acting crazy and accused me of forcing her to do it with witchcraft, so they claimed me to be guilty. They hung me right after being found guilty on a lie.