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Originally Posted by chiliD
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Well, it made a "comeback", shall we say, in the 60's and 70's.
The witches in Salem that were killed most likely were not "witches". Some debate they might have been "wise women" using herbs and healing. But most debate it was part hysteria, and part picking off women in the village so men in town could take their land (although some of the women were married...but others were single and when they were convicted and killed their land was up for cheap sales). And now there is even the thought that the wheat was infected with some fungus/bacteria/something which caused similar symptoms as taking acid. Go figure! That theory has a lot of sound sense to it though. The symptoms, the cows dying too, the weather conditions for causing the fungus (or whatever it is)...