Some did.
First, I like to say some people still do believe in ghost. However, back in the 1600s many people believed because they needed some thing to explain the unexplainable back then.
yes people have been superstitious since they saw shadows and thought they were ghosts!
england
England
Most people lived in the countryside as they were mainly farmers.
new England was were people from England settled in during the 1700s.
the observations made in the 1600s and the 1700s were that of spontaneous generation. This was the "vital force".
In the 1600s, wages for labor were higher in Pennsylvania than in England because there were less people to work. Knowing that the land was cheaper and the wages were higher was one reason many people immigrated to America.
scotland, england, and france
England
The enlightenment
Believe it or not they had knights and horses and stuff like that to entertain them. Here are the things they did not have.T.VRadio