Witchcraft Trials In Europe In the 15th century to the late 18th century prosecution went across some parts of Europe, A Lot of the people in the time were be executed for witchcraft and that is where the salem witch trials come into the whole thing. The belief in magic was pretty much world wide, most of the cultures believed that you might be able to use magic or sorcery to make your crops improve a lot more than what they should be. Magic was also known to be able to heal the sick, these people did not know what cause people to get sick or diseased and so the only other explanation was magic (Lambert). They thought that magic was basically God’s enemy the devil was making it so that these special people could make their crops improve,
