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        Tensions rise in capital of Oregon
                                                                        By Jay Wiltbank
                                                                        College Comp.
        Throughout time at that place have been many small towns with strange tales seeming withal unusual to be true. One such town was capital of Oregon Massachusetts. In 1692 Salem was plagued with a condition known as hysteria which ended with thirty innocent citizens dead. The whole town was convinced there were witches living amongst them. Samuel Parris and the unique make up of Salem is what caused the hysteria to occur.
        The most influential townsman in Salem at this time was the town priest Samuel Parris. Samuel was a man obsessed with sinfulness. He could look at anything and regulate sin. His great terror was of Satan arming his foes to destroy two him and his church.2 Samuel was convinced that Satan was trying to destroy him.
        Parris was commensurate to pass on his beliefs to the citizens of Salem by scaring them into submission. In his sermons he would preach of Satans wrath and the effect it would have on the villagers if they didnt make up as he saw fit. Even visits of mere joyfulness would have been regarded by adults as dubious activities, bordering on the sinful.
4 Any form of activity outside of work and religious belief were considered sinful.
        Samuel was the kind of man who was afraid of new things. He was intimidate by outsiders even though he himself was considered an outsider whole 3 years earlier when he moved to Salem with his wife, three children, and his slave couple Tituba and John Indian. This was very especial(prenominal) because The Puritans believed that Native Americans were servants of the devil or devils themselves...
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