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The Visible Salem The Salem Witch Trials, of 1692, occurred in Salem Massachusetts. This is a case where people accused other people of witchcraft. Salem was a town governed by strict Puritan religion, and to have such a charge labeled against you could cost you your life. According to Boyer and Nissenbaum, there were many worldly reasons for the events that happened so many years ago. In this essay, the authors make their findings based on scientific analysis and much historical research. Paul Boyer and Stephen argued that the Salem Witchcraft Trials took place because of the separation of the east and west, the choosing of the ministers of the church, and the agricultural and merchant interests. After much research, “Boyer and Nissenbaum took their list of accusers and accused the noted the location of each village resident on the map”(Boyer & Nissenbaum 36). Geographically there was lots of evidence of this theory “Of the fourteen accused witches living in the village, twelve lived in the eastern section” (Boyer & Nissenbaum 36). The whole trial episode seems to have come down to the fact that one side of the village accused the other side.
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