Answer: Hundreds of people were accused during the trials, filling prisons of Salem and many neighboring towns. Nobody questioned if the “enchanted” girls were lying about who was a witch, but once the girls started to accuse the most kindhearted of people, the town started to question the trials.
The court was blindly convicting people off of fear of what extremely convincing teenage actresses pretended to see had the possibility to be true. The court was not even allowed to base laws off of religion; their main evidence was if the accused could recite the Lord’s Prayers. Unfortunately they did which eventually led to their royal charter being taken away. After the prayers they had four more pieces of evidence for a person to be a witch. First they had to have physical marks such as warts, moles or birthmarks. Then there were the witness testimonies, which means that they could have been lying out of revenge or because they were forced to.
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The US entered WW2 during the great depression, but the war sent them into an economic production boom in the 50s and 60s and created many new jobs for the returning soldiers. This was the beginning of a lot of consumerism
