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Puritans had a certain form of beliefs similar to many other religions. They had a movement for reform in the church, they did not like the roman Catholic Church nor the Church of England. They believed in Calvinism where they taught education, believed in theocracy, and stood firm on the belief that they are all sinner and will be elected for heaven. In this new world they claimed that The Devil was in fact alive and well. They believed that The Devil was recruiting witches and wizards to tempt the Puritans to sin. Eventually neighbors would accuse that their neighbor was a witch working for The Devil.

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Betty Parris became very ill. Today we know that the cause of her
symptoms may have been some combination of stress, asthma, guilt,
boredom, child abuse, epilepsy, and delusional psychosis. But the Puritans talked of it being witchcraft. Even the doctor claimed it was caused by supernatural origins. After two other girls took on similar behavior as Betty, more talk and belief came about witchcraft in the village. Douglas Linder said as evidence that the girls “The girls contorted into grotesque poses, fell down into frozen postures, and complained of biting and pinching sensations. In a village where everyone believed that the devil was real, close at hand,and acted in the real world, the suspected affliction of the girls
became an obsession”.

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In Salem, people would believe almost anything would be caused by witchcraft. Natural catastrophes, disease, and bad fortune was settled as the work of the devil during any times of trouble. They had a belief where if you were afflicted by witchcraft you would live out certain symptoms. A lot of Puritans were accused of being witches maybe due to old feuds or for certain advantages of the disappearance of the accused. Foreigners had influence on witchcraft, their unknown cultures and practices seemed to be "witch like" to the puritans and soon accusing and blaming the foreigners for working with the devil.

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Overall from the trials in 1692 , 200 people were jailed and accused of witchcraft.  Of the 200,  nineteen men and women were hung. Many remained in jail not being through a trial but was accused of being associated with witchcraft. In one man's trail he neither confessed nor denied of being a witch, so in order to receive an answer they laid the man down and added more and more rocks of heavy wait to "press" the truth out of him. He never answered their questions and instantly died after putting more weight onto his chest.

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The Crucible written by Arthur Miller presented America's darkest and deepest past in order to make a modern point.  He claims that, “Those who
do not learn from history are
doomed to repeat it.” In order to form this play, Miller traveled to Salem itself in Massachusetts and studied the village and documents of the witch trials. "Arthur Miller’s drama The Crucible has its feet in two eras of time, Puritanical New England Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and Cold War Washington of the 1950’s". Because of the events taking place when Miller produced the play its was criticized as unsuccessful but now is known to tell the the chilling truth of The Salem Witch Trials.