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The primary reason why the Salem witch trials occurred were the Puritans when they came to America to seek religious freedom. They believed in John Calvin's theory, that there were people that were elects and people that were damned but to find out who was what they had to experience the Grace of God. Unfortunately they also believed that Satan was acting in the world and had his recruits under the people; everything bad happening came from Satan. People were accused by friends and neighbors to be a witch and their only way to stay alive was to confess it, otherwise they would have been killed. They had no chance to prove that they were falsely accused because everyone was so convinced that witches existed.