My judgement of the ministers and magistrates in charge of the Salem Witch Trials changes in attempt to accommodate for the differences in beliefs when looking at the circumstances in the perspective of modern standards with the advanced scientific information available, in comparison to the perspectives of the scientific and theological standards of the time at the particular point in history. In modern standards, the idea of witchcraft seems ludicrous and unimaginable to be legitimate because research has gone into behavioral studies and data has been collected on various illnesses, mental, physical, or otherwise, that can provide some sort of explanation to abnormal actions by an individual or group of people. However, in this regard, the
