What Is the Cause of the Salem Witch Trials?

At the time, they very much thought that it was a case of the devil and ar some kind of evil spirit. That was very much what the suspicion was. It was certainly the case this came down to religion, rather than cot any kind of medical theory. But in more recent times, what alternatives have been suggested by historians? Well, i think one of the really interesting ones, which am, i don't think i agree with, but has been suggested, is the amurgat theory. Some people have attributed that ote to the coromania. Another theory in the nineteenth century was sydnam's coria, which is a disease that that is contracted in childhood