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According to Puritan belief, what is the connection between the Devil and a witch?

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Many people were accused of being witches and “people in seventeenth century New England believed that a witch was a person who had made a pact with Satan and therefore had strange and terrible powers”(Stevens 28).
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Many people were accused of being witches and “people in seventeenth century New England believed that a witch was a person who had made a pact with Satan and therefore had strange and terrible powers”(Stevens 28).
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