Salem Witchcraft Trials Throughout history citizens have branded people as witches. Maybe, a person act's differently than other people or they have strange habits but does this that make them a witch? Witchcraft is a phenomenon that has captured the minds of millions since the beginning of history. These so-called witches have caused fear, hatred, interest, widespread panic, and a variety of other emotions in other people from all over the world. Every society and …showed first 75 words of 1913 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1913 total…the strange excitement. Although the law is innocent until proven guilty, and had been practiced before the trials, in the case of the witchcraft trials and the modern day witch-hunts, the accused witches were guilty until proven innocent. Not many were given the chance to prove themselves to be innocent. In 1697, Reverend John Hale stated that the courts were wrong because of ignorance. He had said that innocent people had died with the guilty people (28).