The reverend Hale asked Abigail "Did you call the Devil last Night?" Abigail response "I never called him! ... She soon realized her ability to usurp her new found power to gather support for her wild accusations. ... They believed everything Abigail told them so were willing and eager to support her wild bid to rid them of witches. ... To question the beliefs and authority of the church, including the trials was to be a witch; to question the beliefs and authority of capitalism and the McCarthy trials was to be a Communist. ...

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These so-called witches have caused fear, interest, hatred, widespread panic, and a variety of other emotions in people during the medieval era. ... (Sprenger, 1) So if one did not believe in Catholicism they were considered heretics and could have also been called a witch, feeding into the witch craze. ... They went through a lot of trouble persecuting heretics and witches and questioned them about their beliefs, if they had relations with Satan, and if in fact they were witches. However, as fair as they tried to be, the biggest factor that was the "fuel to the fire" of the witch craze, w...

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Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, John Proctor, Ann Pudeator, Wilmott Redd, Margaret Scott, Samuel Wardwell, Sarah Wildes, and John Wilard. ... She has been called "an object for compassion rather than punishment." ... In fact, in response to an attempt by Minister Nicholas Noyes to elicit a confession, Good called out from the scaffolding, "You are a liar. ...

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