The witch-trial crisis of the 17th century does somewhat predict to be an outcome of the puritanical community. The puritan community has very strict religious views and the members of the community had many rules of does and don’ts that were allowed. This would be very hard for young girls to follow the rules while the temptations of the world taunted them throughout their lives. With the rules, however, the only way to cover up their mishaps would be to fake a widely growing fear of witch-craft that was very frowned upon in the puritan religion. And if you had enemies that you did not like and wanted to get rid of then all you would have to do is call witch on them and then watch them suffer as what you had done was looked over at the bigger issue at hand. The blame of superstition and paranoia does not belong to Salem, but the idea of charging someone of a crime based on fear of an unknown along with unexplained occurrence led to the crisis that killed many people. This of course would cause larger fear and paranoia because with people dying because of the accusation of being called a witch, most were worried or paranoid of what might happen if they do something that people might question as witch-craft. And whether you do something that may be considered witch craft or not then you had the chance of being accused of the crime by others that did not like you, even if they knew you had done no such a