Salem Witch Trials

The episode of the American History that most caught my attention up to this point, of what we have studied in class, were the Salem Witch Trials and all the hysteria that was unleashed during those days at Salem. What seemed to be a peaceful and quiet puritan community ended up being a growing snow ball of paranoia. From our perspective, more than 300 years later it really seems to be a very childish thing to believe in, but the fact is that although some people tried to stop it and did not believe in what was happening, nobody was able to stop it, or simply did not care about what was going on until some people from the upper class began to be accused. The fact that only one of the judges involved in the trials openly repented and apologised is scary.