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In this event in American history the Salem witch trials was a time of paranoia causing plenty of unwarranted deaths. It all started when the Puritans came to Plymouth Rock and founded settlements and towns.  One of these towns was called Salem Town and on the outskirts was a place called Salem Village.  In this village a Indian slave named Tabitha showed some children of a reverend some tricks she had learned from Barbados. The girls went on trial for supposed possession but then blamed Tabitha of possessing them.  She was put on trial but she said that she saw other people in the "devils book" causing people to hunt other "witches".  This caused feuds and old hatreds to be solved by unwarranted trials. These eventually ended when the girls accused the mayor causing the trails to be stopped.