... churches, and Civill state to be respectively impartialle and inviolably enjoyed and observed throughout our jurisdiction for ever. The settlers in Massachusetts looked upon themselves as moral and religious people. Yet, there were many wrongdoers in the new colony. They had a strict moral code and violators were handed bizarre punishments. With every crime imaginable there was a harsh punishment to follow, weather ... came a new rise and new terror in Massachusetts. Witchcraft (1692) was sot after a fought with no question. Under the Puritan belief a witch was a person who had " famili...

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