People were accused of being witches because
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They was paranoid about witches, just as there is at the moment about terrorists, in the 1950's about communists, in the 1910's about Germans etc....
Both were caused by a hysteria that made people accuse others of being something feared in that day. In Salem, it was witches. In the senate it was communists.
Nowadays most people would say "yes". Not too long ago most would say they are real and they would accuse women of being witches if they didn't fit into what everyone else's idea of normal was.
it began when people would accuse others that they really hated and thought that they were acting evil and witch.
Abigail Williams is most famous for being one of the people that accused people of being witches in Salem. The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 lead to the arrest of 150 innocent people. Abigail Williams is knows for being the first person to accuse someone of witchcraft.
Other people.
People falsely accuse the transsexual people of being homosexuals because of the little information that they have about them.
Christians
The religion affected the New York colony in a very harsh way. The Quakers couldn't really walk around their town and some religions, people thought some people were witches so if you just walk around, some people could accuse you and drown you, if they can swim, they accuse it on "witches" or if you cant swim... you die. How unresonable!
I think it was because he was a bad man about accusing people of being communists
yes they were
About 100 people sign a petition so that they may testify for the women who were accused of being witches. These same people were later arrested for being witches.