It’s hard to figure out what the purpose of the Salem Witch Trials is. Obviously it was to get rid of all they people that were suspected witches by killing them, but that just doesn’t seem like a good enough reason to kill that many people just because someone has a suspicion that someone else MIGHT be a witch. If someone was even suspected as being a witch, they could be thrown in jail for months on end or even killed. If, in the process of killing someone, they someone get out of it or live, they are said to be a witch. No one ever survived so what was the point in continuing when the accusation has been wrong every other time it was made. The slightest things could make someone be accused of witchcraft. As The Witchcraft Trials in Salem:
