Which sadly ended Bridget Bishops life and was also the first one to be hung which is a gruesome death that involves the snapping of your neck or simply just choking to death, which would sometimes take hours. Before being hung Bishop says, "I am as innocent as the child unborn" (Document A). ...
Social tensions led to Bridget Bishop being called a witch. ... (Bishop) Bishop fought frequently with her various husbands in public. ... Bishop was known to drink, gamble and play the forbidden game of shovel. "Bishop was in the habit of dressing more artistically than "the women of the village"." ... (Hysteria) Because Bishop dared to go against the strict Puritan philosophy she was put on trial as a witch. ...
As many people accused each other of doing witch craft throughout colonial Massachusetts, a special court in Salem had to hear the cases; the first convicted witch, Bridget Bishop, was hanged that June. Eighteen others followed Bishop to Salem's Gallows Hill, while 150 more men, women and children were accused over the next several months. ...
