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Back in the day when people were scared of everything, people could blame others without any proof and the accused would be killed. Why was this? It was because people were guilty until proven innocent. They did this because they were scared of the unknown. They just wanted to live a perfect life and go to heaven without anything getting in their way. The Deputy Governor of Massachusetts is Judge Danforth and is the presiding judge at the witch trials. Honest and scrupulous, at least in his own mind, Danforth is convinced that he is doing right in rooting out witchcraft. Danforth did this because he wanted each person that was found the guilty until proven innocent because he wanted every guilty person innocent or not, to confess. There are proof’s that this happens because the accused have no other option but to confess or have their name posted around town and have it tainted by false accusations. Some people just did not want to hear anything but what their own thoughts perceived as their own truth. So they were ignorant in a way to not be