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The Salem Witch Trials is a period largely considered a case of "mass hysteria": a phenomenon in which collective fear and paranoia of threats, real or imagined, overtakes the behavior of a community. In the context of this idea and of the overall text, what are the effects of following the crowd?

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The effects would be anxiety, mistrust, and fear that you could know somebody with "magic" abilities

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The Salem Witch Trials where scary, and traumatic

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