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Witchcraft is the exercise or invocation of alleged supernatural powers to control people or events, practices typically involving sorcery or magic. Witches would often believed to summon evil spirits and demons to harm others.

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The most famous witch trial in history happened in Salem, Massachusetts, during the winter and spring of 1692-1693. when it was all over, 141 suspects, both men and women, were tried as witches. Nineteen were executed by hanging. One was pressed to death by heavy stones.

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Puritanism refers to a Calvinist movement that emphasized a personal experience of salvation by Christ, strict moral discipline and purity as the correct form of Christian life, a covenant of obedience to god, who was viewed as absolute sovereign over all and societal reform to convert the world to the way of Christ.

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The political practice of publicizing accusations of disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence and the use of methods of investigation and accusation regarded as unfair, in order to suppress opposition.

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The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more protestant.