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Four girls were practically the overseers of the accused's fate, they would react in bizarre ways whenever a witch is present, as you can see. Two hundred people were accused of being witches by the end of 1692. only nineteen of them were hanged. The witch hysteria that grew in Salem derived from the Calvinistic belief that Satan acted on the Earth, sometimes in the form of disease, natural disasters or misfortune. The Puritans also believed that Satan recruited

witches and warlocks to aid him

through witchcraft. Soon, witch

hysteria grew about as people

began to accuse each other of

participating in witchcraft, which

was commonly against foreigners

or enemies.