The REAL Cause of the Salem Witch Trials | Cool History

The Salem Witch Trials are some of the most tragic cases of prejudice and hysteria gone awry, but we all know that witches (probably) don't exist... So what is the truth behind the trials?

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Ergotism: The Salem Loosed in Salem by Linnda Caporael:
http://personal.tcu.edu/gsmith/GraduateCourse/Colonial%20PDF%20Articles/Ergotism-Caporael.pdf

Sources:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/vex/toxic/ergot/ergot.htm
http://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/intropp/lessons/fungi/ascomycetes/Pages/Ergot.aspx
http://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/drugged-salem-witchtrial.htm/printable
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/15/Salem-Witch-Trials-The-Fungus-Theory/
http://www.history.com/topics/salem-witch-trials
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-salem-witch-trials-175162489/
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/Salem-Witch-Trials-Glossary/a/Witch-Cake-Or-Witchs-Cake.htm
http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/archives/ModestEnquiry/index.html
http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/people/osborne.html
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/ASA_MATH.HTM
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience by Emerson W. Baker

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