Women's position in society made them vunerable and the picture of the stereotypical witch was built around that.
Salem
the past
She was pregnant and they wouldn't hang a pregnant woman. By the time the baby was born, the witchcraft accusations had been proved false and there were no more hangings.
The spread of the plague & other kinds of disease.
vengeance
Vengeance
Vengeance
In "The Crucible," John Proctor believed the motivating force behind all the accusations of witchcraft in Salem Village was vengeance. He was outraged at the interrogation of the pious Rebecca Nurse, and the accusation of his wife Elizabeth.
Vengeance
vengeance
property.
I'm going to assume you mean Salem, Massachusetts 1692.