Puritans were very superstitious and they believed that witches had to do with the devil. People around the seventeenth century who lived in New England believed that a witch was a person who had made a pact with Satan and therefore had strange and terrible powers. They were thought to use these powers on people they disliked or just anyone. Witches could supposedly make babies sick and die, dry up a mother's milk, cause plagues …
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…a ladder blindfolded and hands tied one of the ways they were killed behind their back. Then when they reached the top the ladder was pushed over. Another way was to burn them. But the most common way was for them to be hung. No matter how they were killed it was always in public to teach a lesson to others and show what would happen to them if they committed the crime of witchcraft.