William Shakespeare wrote Macbeth in the 17th century. The king at the time was King James and he believed witches had very special powers, they could make people ill or even kill them, they were also believed to make the weather change and make the nights longer with their curses of evil. So obviously if they thought someone was a witch they would test them to see if their prediction was true. But more often than not if people thought you were a witch you were more or less already dead because they used to tie the suspect in the middle of a rope and then pull them into the middle of a river ...

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