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The Devil played a huge role during the witch trials. Since the Puritans were such religious people, anyone who was accused of being a witch was accused of worshipping the Devil. There was a belief that a person afflicted by witchcraft exhibits certain symptoms and those who get it got them from the Devil. In a specific witch trial, an accused witch remembered signing the book of the Devil and seeing other names in it as well. In another trial, a couple of girls had markings show up on the body and would scream, the Devil was seemed to be behind all of this.

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The Puritans took religion very seriously and thought that it was crucial for God to be above everyone. One specific belief of theirs was predestination. Predestination was that God choose for a person to go to either heaven or hell and there was nothing that could be said or done to change that. This instilled fear and insecurities that they may not have been the chosen one by God, and would be frowned upon if not.  Many people felt like they had to fake it until they make it and did everything they can to appear as one of God's chosen.

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The picture below is a crucible. Arthur Miller wrote a play named after this object. He wrote this about the Salem Witch Trials that were happening in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Miller named the play after the crucible because after being put in the heat, insecurities started to bubble over and true colors were shown. The point of the play was because Arthur believed "if we don’t learn from our mistakes, we are doomed to repeat it”.

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This is a picture that illustrates the witch trials. After being accused of witchcraft, the person was placed into jail until trial, which sometimes never happened. Women were typically only accused at first and at trial were forced to trip naked in order to be examined for any markings. If proven to be a witch, everything owned was auctioned off to other people. Confessing allotted for jail time while not confessing but being proven a witch allotted for death. Over 200 people were accused and 19 people were hung.

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The Puritans came over to America in 1620 and established the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They came to the new world in search for religious freedom from the Church of England. They valued God and believed that God should come before anyone and wanted the Church and State to be combined. Their beliefs eventually came to bite them because it turned into a witch hunt. This would end up terrorizing the Puritans and stirring up a big mess.