The People of Salem Are Effectively Inventing Their Own Justice System

Boston merchant robert calef was locked in an antagonistic correspondence with mador during the trials. He later criticised mater's incendiary account of events and called one of the accused, martha carrier, a rampant hag and a queen of hell. The motivation of people interrogating people suspected of witchcraft was extremely varied. Officially, it supposed to be to find the truth. But as we all know across any law enforcement system, that doesn't always work.