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| accusing without evidence |
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| Salem witch trials were based purely on suspicion like Communist accusations in the 1950s |
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| one person accusing others |
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| people in the town are accusing others by themselves |
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| all the town people were afraid of evil in their town and afraid of being accused/tried as a witch |
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| afraid of evil getting into their society which cause a state of panic |
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| all the town people were afraid of the evil in the town so they started making accusations based on suspicion because they were all afraid |
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| emotions taken over so they accuse helpless people |
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| Giles Corey said his wife reading books made him unable to pray and then she was accused of witchcraft |
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