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The Puritans were a religious group in the New World that believed in witches and witchcraft and did everything in their power to eliminate them. They wanted to create a perfect society with no evil or works of the devil, including witches. When someone was accused of being a witch, they were "witch tested" and often tried and sent to prison. The witch hunt of 1692 consisted of  hundreds of people being accused of being a witch after a group of girls who were seen as "possessed" revealed the names of the witches in the town that performed witchcraft. In the end 19 suspects were hung and 4 died in jail.