Salem Witch Trials
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Superstition and witchcraft resulted in many being hanged or in prison. In the seventeenth century, a belief in witches andwitchcraft was almost universal. In Salem Massachusetts where thewitch trials take place many people who are suspicious is accused of witchcraft and hanged. Arthur Miller wrote ....
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.... took possession of the minds of nearly all the people, and the dread made the affliction spread widely. "The afflicted, under the influence of the witchery, "admitted to see the forms of their tormentors with their inner vision" (Miller 1082). and would immediately accuse some individual seen with the devil. At times the afflicted and the accused became so numerous thatno one was safe from suspicion and its consequences. Even those who were active in the prosecutions became objects of susp ....
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