During Rosalyn Schanzer’s Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem, many innocent people were accused of being witches in the town of Salem. While this was going on, many people were striked with a terrible disease that caused horrible fits! The girls were diagnosed with being bewitched, and the witch trials of Salem began! While people don´t know whether the girls were faking being afflicted or not, most can agree that that something like this never happened again. However, I believe differently, as evidenced by The Red Scare, The US hunting down ¨terrorists¨, and prosecution of Japanese Americans during World War 2.

All of the things I mentioned above are actually very similar to the witch trials. Such as In the 50s, there