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SALEM EPISODE 2: How events spiralled out of control

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How Did Paris React to Witchcraft?

After weeks of fits convulsion, balking and wailing from his daughter and his nee, the minister sought out help. His thought that he called in the elderly local doctor, william griggs, who confirmed the family's worst fears. As news of the girl's unnatural affliction spread, other members of the community had their own ideas about how to deal with the problem. And everyone is, at this point a professed expert or everyone knows a certain amount about witchcraft. So s to the house and essentially arranges for a folk remedy, or a folk diagnostic tool, which was a witch cake baked out of ashes. And the dog's urine, it would help to indicate

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