Did Cold Weather Cause the Salem Witch Trials?
I thought this was a very interesting article. Weather is always with us so many times we do not pay attention to it unless there is a disaster like a hurricane. This article theorizes that lower than average temperatures coincide with witch accusations according to Oster. Crop loss and hard times come out of the lower temperatures causes people to blame someone and who better to blame than witches who can control the weather. This still happens today in Africa but instead of the problem being the cold it is too much rain but once again witches are blamed. So instead of blaming a witch this Halloween season blame the meteorologist.
This is very interesting. Like the tie of weather to history!
ReplyDeleteI am not sure it is THE cause, but it does seem like there could be a correlation. I agree with Tiffany, this was very interesting. Plus I hadn't heard this before; I like learning new tidbits of info. Thanks David.
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