... to act. It was a very pessimistic idea; c) Because of the obsession with this desire of perfection, righteous, purity and pious behaviour, as well as with the fear of God's punishment and the condemning to Hell; and after the apparition of Cotton Mather's Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions (1689), there came a growing fascination with witchcraft in Salem Village: twenty people and two dogs were ... executed as witches and hundreds more were either sent to jail or accused. At this point, the Puritan community became a mob of hysterical people that lost sight of...

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