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See in The Bible it actually talks about witches, and of course in England (17th, 18th, 19th centuries) they were strong believers in the church. Most people were un-educated and fearful, so they just decided to follow the bible's teachings blindly. This spread into the early colonies, and people again followed the bible blindly and as you know the Salem Witch Trials happened.
In short, the people who were afraid of witches were the un-educated and those easily fooled.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoreally witches look like people but the puratens who led the witch trails change there image of the witch to a ugly hag to disgrace them so that is why they are scary and i think one of the ways they killed a witch is to burn his or her face in hot boiling greasce to make them hidesus then they displayed them in the public then they kill them
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∙ 12y agoPeople are scared of witches and warlocks, because, sometimes they like to blame superstition on bad events. This took place in Salem Mass. and it takes place today in Africa and Asia and other undeveloped nations, where people have not been educated to know there is usually a valid scientific explanation for bad occurrences. Blaming magic and witches is easy, when you are too ignorant to know any better. Unfortunately, when people blame witches for their problems, there is often an innocent person who's accused of being a witches and that people might be harmed or killed. Around 45,000 men and women were executed, (in the Middle Ages), with the crime of witchcraft being the reason for their death.
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∙ 11y agoFor the same reason that people believe in witches nowadays (and if you think they don't, check out how many people and churches freaked out at the Harry Potter books), which is that witches provide a focus for people's fears. Other groups of people, real and imaginary, who serve the same purpose in people's minds are the Illuminati, Jews, terrorists, aliens, Freemasons, communists and Muslims. In all cases, people imagine that a somewhat mysterious group that they don't know much about (and don't dare find out about, because knowledge is dangerous) have mysterious powers which will enable them to do awful and terrible things. Any awful and terrible things which have happened are guessed to have been secretly caused by the witches, Illuminati, Jews, etc.
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∙ 14y agoPeople fear witches because for centuries people have made old wives tales about them killing or sacrificing or even summoning demons
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∙ 13y agoWitches themselves are not terrible. The behaviour which ignorant people spread towards witches is what makes them angry.
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