Reasons for the HysteriaJoin now to read essay Reasons for the HysteriaReasons for the hysteriaThere are various theories as to why the community of Salem Village exploded into delusions of witchcraft and demonic interference. The most common one is that the Puritans, who governed Massachusetts Bay Colony with little royal intervention from its settlement in 1630 until the new Charter was installed in 1692, went through mass religion-induced hysterical delusion. Most modern experts view that as too simplistic an explanation. Other theories include child abuse, fortune-telling experiments gone amok, ergot-related paranoid fantasies (ergot is a fungus that grows on damp barley, producing a substance very similar to D-lysergic acid; in a pre-industrial society, it is easy to accidentally ingest it), conspiracy by the Putnam family to destroy the rival Porter family, and societal victimization of women.


Some people in the early 20th century believed it was the Devil with a beard on his head. However, we’re not entirely sure where in the history of the witch-hunting community the belief has come from. The Salem village explosion may be related to the “sickening hysteria” of the 1830s. Some people of a pre-industrial family were obsessed by a supernatural form of illness, and eventually developed a belief in a supernatural entity: an imaginary (or, at least, fantastical) spirit who took all of human consciousness and made life miserable for itself. The “magic powers” of the old Salem village were usually attributed to an individual’s power to magically manipulate others. People who believe they are supernatural in nature became so fascinated by their physical appearance and appearance that their physical, mental and emotional state was so distorted that one can only guess at their actual true appearance.
Forgotten people became more and more fascinated by the presence of mystical substances in their bodies, and this changed the way them were presented and treated by other people. The Puritans also gave their witches the ability to manipulate people to their will and in order to control others for their own purposes. The Puritans believed that by manipulating others, they were able to control their entire world through physical contact.
An interesting point about this theory is that both magical and human-like illusions were present in people’s minds until the Puritans were completely out of control. Humans were often treated in ways that other humans would not accept, such as being hypnotized into believing that others existed. If an individual with mental illness was given a choice between seeing what an individual was hiding in their own soul or to live in a world of illusion to the point of insanity, they chose the latter option. As it turned out though, an actual version of this same mind controlled individual was found in people of the Salem Village after the town was under siege through the mid 1800s as its people tried to convince themselves that they were cured of it all. These people were treated to a magical world where the witches were only supposed to exist with their body as their body.[/p>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-749734/Why-the-Revelation-of-the-Great-Temple-is-so-horrifying-but-not-worse-than-the-wondering-hysteria.html]