Salem Cross Word

3. Many of the accused avoided execution by giving one of these.
4. Trials were meant to find this kind of person.
9. The first enslaved woman accused of witchcraft.
12. The name for people accused of being witches.
13. Many people were punished by this form of execution.
14. The man who was pressed to death for refusing to plead guilty or not guilty.
17. Religious leader whose sermons warned of the devil’s work in Salem.
18. Type of "proof" where witnesses claimed to see spirits harming others.
19. Some accused were sent to these before trial.

1. The colony where the trials occurred.
2. The last name of the minister who supported the trials and wrote about witchcraft.
5. This famous minister and author defended the witch trials in his writings.
6. Widespread emotion that caused neighbors to turn against each other.
7. The act of putting someone on trial for crimes.
8. Belief in the supernatural that helped fuel the panic.
10. Religious group that settled in Massachusetts Bay Colony.
11. The main crime people were accused of.
13. The widespread panic and fear during the trials.
15. The town where the witch trials took place.
16. Religious leader in Salem whose daughter and niece were among the first afflicted.