Part one of term paper
The history of witchcraft during seventeenth century New England is inherently a history of direct confrontations within communities where relationships become tainted with suspicion, revenge and anger. The documents in Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth Century New England have retold the events and stories of Puritan New England to give the moder ...

Part two of term paper
... argument) combined with personal or familial bad luck, were the root of all these occurrences. In New England, the term “witch” in New England served as identification used for punishment, revenge, or both. For the most part, townspeople used this term to belligerent or “troublesome” people. These “witches” were accused for making children sick, causing animal deaths, and inducing pain and suffering. Or they could have been accused due to evidence of strange events, or their mysterious c ...