Lets start in January 1692, when Reverend Parris’ daughter Elizabeth, age nine, and niece Abigail Williams, age eleven, started having fits. They would shout, toss things, express impossible to miss sounds, and distort themselves into abnormal positions. Another Salem child, Ann Putnam, age eleven, experienced identical symptoms. Many modern theories suggest the girls were suffering from epilepsy, boredom, child abuse, mental illness or even a disease brought on by eating rye infected with fungus, and this is why the children would act so
Lets start in January 1692, when Reverend Parris’ daughter Elizabeth, age nine, and niece Abigail Williams, age eleven, started having fits. They would shout, toss things, express impossible to miss sounds, and distort themselves into abnormal positions. Another Salem child, Ann Putnam, age eleven, experienced identical symptoms. Many modern theories suggest the girls were suffering from epilepsy, boredom, child abuse, mental illness or even a disease brought on by eating rye infected with fungus, and this is why the children would act so