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The Salem Witch trials in 1692 caused a mass hysteria in Massachusetts. Innocent people were accused of being a witch or a warlock and sometimes they were hung but other times they tested this accusation by having you strapped to a chair over "pure" water and if you sunk you weren't considered a witch and if you floated you were. Puritans were the start of the whole event because they believed in a strict moral code and anyone who would go against these codes were considered to have "sin". Henceforth, the Puritans believed that the suspicious people who are sinners and not following true Puritan rules, are thus dealing with witchcraft and thats why they are the social outcast in their community. There were three girls that caused this sense of anxiety when they would mock and imitate the accused to try and prove that they were in fact guilty in their trial.