... mistrust that the men held against the women eventually led to witch trials all over the country. The most infamous one however is the Salem witch trials. How, you might ask did these men get away with these atrocities? During that time period a large religious movement was sweeping the colonies and a book called Malleus Maleficarum, co-authored by German writers Heinrich ... first victim was a woman by the name of Anne Hutchinson. She was a godly woman who the leaders of the cleansing war had decided was a heretic and that she had to go. Also she possessed a covetous piece of real esta...

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