Social and Religious Factors Affected the Harsh Treatment of Witchcraft in Early Centuries The manner of witchcraft in early centuries have been denoted as the communication with the deceased, which have been preceded as the worshiping of satan (Arnold 2011). Engagement in witchcraft has been recorded in numerous accounts over the centuries comparatively in Salem, Massachusetts, and Europe in the 16th century. The influential in social and religious factors of different communities have shaped the punishments of witchcraft, in both Salem and France, had two different methods in their approach to an abnormality of contributors to the practice.
