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What evidence led to men and women being convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials?

What evidence led to men and women being convicted of witchcraft during the Salem-example-1

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C - accusations from village authorities and villagers AND

D - the strange behaviour of village girls

Step-by-step explanation:

Accusations followed, often escalating to convictions and executions. The Salem witch trials and executions came about as the result of a combination of church politics, family feuds, and hysterical children, all of which unfolded in a vacuum of political authority.

Courts relied on three kinds of evidence: 1) confession, 2) testimony of two eyewitnesses to acts of witchcraft, or 3) spectral evidence (when the afflicted girls were having their fits, they would interact with an unseen assailant – the apparition of the witch tormenting them).

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