Courts relied on three kinds of evidence: 1) confession, 2) testimony of two eyewitnesses to acts of witchcraft, or 3) spectral evidence (when the afflicted girls were having their fits, they would interact with an unseen assailant – the apparition of the witch tormenting them).
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I have learned about this in my 8th grade us history class as one of the first units I did. I really hope this helps with your hw.
could be wrong but i believe the answer is the theories of Social Darwinism were often used to justify the efforts of certain political, social, or economic views.