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Were witches ever really a threat to humans or were they just a figment of our imagination? During the year of 1692 in a small village named Salem, approximately fifty people were hung and one pressed to death due to witchery. These people were all tried and con ....

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.... witchery Proctor at first believes that Abigail is lying to him about what was being done in the forest. Abigail denies any accusation of witchery, but Proctor believes that they were practicing witchery. “Now then, in the midst of such disruption, my own household is discovered to be the very center of some obscene practice. Abominations are done in the forest-“ Due to their belief that the devil is a living entity, Proctor accuses his niece of witchery with out any knowledge of what truly happened. This accusation then causes the witch trials. During the church began to suspect all members of the society. They began to investigate the ....