Arthur miller resurrected the tale with his 1953 play the crucible and identifies the trails of the mccarthyism paranoia in 1950’s. The 20th century’s artists and scientists were facinated by 6 salem witch trials. The hypotheses they found was they had been devised to explain strange behavior that occured in the salem in 1692. They blamed the abnormal habits of accused the fungus ergot foung in rye wheat and other cereal grasses. Toxicologists said that eating er-got foods can lead to muscle spasms, vomiting delusions and hallucinations.
