The Salem witch trials of the seventeenth century was interrupted in many different ways including the opinion of Carla Gardina Pestana in which she writes and believes that the executions where not solely based on the fact of witchcraft itself but also based on the importance of economic and political clause. She also believes in fact and support of other authors that it is also based on the gender, character and religion of the accused.
In the beginning of this era the three woman accused were simply "outcast and deviants" in their community but things started to change in early March when three more persons were accused but of social status. Then in April twenty-two more persons were pointed out including a wealthy ship owner named Phillip English and a minister by the name of George Burroughs. …
