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The salem witch trials all started when a young girl started acting strange and ill. She would go under furniture and contorted pain. This girl would have symptoms of stress, asthma, guilt, boredom, and child abuse. Now today we would think she might have a disorder but back then they had no way to understand what was happening other than they thought she was a witch. This girl thought the devil was real because she had random scratch marks as she started to scream and she said she felt like she was being pinched. People thought she was talking to the devil and so she was put to trial. Many more people started acting this way and 19 men and women were hanged and another man was bricked to death. Lastly many people were put into jail for months without trials because they had no idea what was going on.

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people would accuse anyone of witchcraft for numerous amount of reasons. anyone could point fingers at someone for being a witch/wizard and they would immediately be taken away. Its scary to think anyone could say that, anyone who you don't like or dont get along with could point fingers at you and accuse you and like that your life would be over. The min thing people would do was to accuse someone they had a despot with. Old feuds was a major cause of people being accused, disputes within congregation but the main was property disputes. Property disputes was the main one when people would want there neighbors property and so they would accuse the of being a witch and they would be taken away and a few days later there land would be put up for sale and more than half the time there neighbors were the ones to buy the land

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Some causes of witchcraft hysteria in salem, a strong belief that satan is acting in the world and they believed state recruits people (witches and wizards) to work for him, it was known to happen when they would speak to god in church they would have a feeling and if they felt something and were chosen they would be first in line to talk to jesus himself. Foreign influence was another cause of witchcraft. Teenage boredom was a big deal and that caused many of things to happen it caused people to do things they shouldn't and practice withcraft things.

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The puritans were people who refer to the movement for reform, They wanted to rid the church of catholic residue and build upon the ideas of john Calvin. The puritans were very traditional people who believed in school and to dress plain. The puritans had very strong theological beliefs, they believed in theocracy which was a government that blend church and state and they believe that the church should have power over government and kind. City upon a hill theory was another thing the puritans believed was a new MA colony which was a place of complete reform where god would be found in scripture and a strong work ethic.The last belief was education, education was an extremely big deal to the puritans and every puritan went through school.

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During this time people were being accused of witch craft and accused of being a witch. People could point fingers at someone and that person would immedialty be accused of being a witch and most did not deny it because if they did they would be thought of as a liar and tortured( bricked) until the told the "truth". Most people would lie and say they were a witch because they at least had a chance of survival.