Like everybody else in the area.
People think Halloween is all about spooky things,so they dress scary and look scary.
they wore long clokes but witches today dress simaller to us
The past participle of "dress" is "dressed."
The past tense of the verb to dress is dressed.
who look ?
Dressed
We no longer find witches and burn them on the stake.
The past tense of wear is wore.
The future tense of 'dress' is dressed. It is also past tense.
Because you don't know what you are looking at. Witches look just like everybody else.
Witches are human. They are subject to the same rules and natural laws and you and I are. In the past, as today, witches spoke whatever language they learned as children and any subsequent languages they learned in their travels (if any). Many educated people of the past spoke their common/birth language as well as Latin and Greek. There was not then, nor is there now a "secret witches' language" nor do they communicate by telepathy.
Mrs. Putnam had some bad luck in the past that she wanted to blame on witches. When her own daughter was "afflicted," she was able to.