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The Puritan colonists in Massachusetts at the time of the Salem witch panic believed that a witch was allied with the devil and did his dark work on earth. Basically, the human embodiment of evil.

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colonists believed that witchcraft was a strange thing. they believed that witchcraft was against the religion that they celebrated and they hung whoever didn't confess to witchcraft.

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The colonists of Salem, Massachusetts believed that witchcraft was unholy and nonreligious.

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