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How did the Salem witch trials start

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A group of girls pretended that they were under the spell of a witch... they would pretend to thrash around uncontrollably, except for when the witch was in their presence. Then they would go stock-still. The courthouses would bring "witches" in front of the girls to see if they would go rigid.

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they began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft

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