The most infamous Witchcraft Trials was the Salem Witchcraft Trials in Salem,
Massachusetts in 1692. Although only 30 were killed there, it was ironic how a
"fresh start in a New World" ended up as a killing spree on innocent victims.

Reasoning in the trials in the New World included political tensions, land
related grievances, disease and religious repression. Because of the strict
religious society of the time, with it's adamant upbringing of children to
follow the Bible, it created a very strong belief in the Devil.

(By this time the Christians and Catholics has already done a "great job" of
spreading the word that the Pagan God was actually the Devil in the Bible.)

So it only took the hysterics of two young girls ( Elizabeth Parris and Abigail
Williams),one of them was the daughter of Rev. Samuel Parris, to start off the
madness of the Witch Hunts there.

The two girls became interested in the magickal culture of a West Indian slave
named Tituba, who was incidentally was "owned" by Rev. Parris. They started
doing divinations about future husbands, and various other things.

When some of the towns people caught them in the act of doing some of the
divination techniques on their own, they quickly claimed they were bewitched to
do it to save their butts.

Tibtuta, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne were the first named by the two girls and
arrested as the perpetrators of their "bewitchment" on February 29, 1692. From
that point on, neighbors and friends instantly became back-stabbers and foes.
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