There was no one who was really a witch there. if someone decided they thought you were a witch you went to trial for it and the reason people were tried was because girls were having strange actions...
Probably that of Rebbecca Nurse. The fact that she had been accused rattled the support of many of the most insistant participants. Initially, she was found innocent, but the court repealed that...
Salem witch trials were accused for being witches and the Jews involving the holocaust were accused for their religion. EDIT: In Salem, the trials were caused by pure hysteria and panic and were...
The wife of the governor of Massachusetts was accused, which firmly set him against the trials. He ordered the trials put on hold and wrote the English government in London, who replied with an order...
Usually doctors were thought to be witches, especially if they were very good ones. It was mostly women, especially older ones. Everyone back then was very superstitious and religious so they all...