https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-salem-witch-trials-175162489/

In class recently, we have been discussing the Salem Witch Trials. This article discusses all the history of them. It talks about how fear had driven people to hysteria just like we had seen in the crucible. As soon as someone did something even slightly different or in any way against Christian ways, they were thought to have been practicing witchcraft and with the devil. People that were accused, which over 200 suffered,  had to either accuse someone else or falsely confess that they were seeing the devil. They had to do this simply in order to live. When given the choice of living for confessing or dying for stating your truth, most just chose to comply for their life.