Witchcraft In The Crucible

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In the play of the crucible, we see many people get charged for witchcraft and get the death sentence and are hanged for witchcraft. This all started when they found a group of girls dancing in the woods and were supposedly practicing witchcraft. The girls were first thought to be practicing witchcraft but later on in the play they convinced the court and the whole town that it was other people in the town practicing witchcraft and controlling or forcing them to do such things against their own will. The group of girls started accusing many different villagers of practicing witchcraft and sending out their spirits to them and influencing them to do evil things or as they referred to it “the devil's work”. This all started when a specific girl

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