lety of the Devil”. Natural explanations were linked with supernatural ones, but the natural diseases were generally untreatable: supernatural illness could be cured with prayer. Technically there were two kinds of supernatural illness: possession, in which evil spirits were inside the ill person, and obsession, in which they tormented the person from without. The evil spirits could have been sent directly by the Devil, or a “witch” could have sicced them on the afflicted person. Practically, "possessed," "obsessed," and "bewitched" were often confused, and "came very near to being synonymous”. As Abigail Hobbs and Mary Warren found out, obsessed victim and obsessing witch could also become all too synonymous. There was a growing disbelief among conformists in actual demoniac possession. Anyway, it was less daunting to deal with a supposed witch than the devil, so the diagnosis in Salem was of a malefic rather than diabolical affliction. This was a very scary decade that people suffer and where hanged being innocent it was sad to see how all those people that were innocent where hanged withought really done any crime but that’s how it was a few decades ago and there was no justice, they thought that the devil was there trying to take those people’s soul it was very interesting but also sad because the poor people who died. That was my opinion I wanted to give about my essay....
