The Crucible brought to life the depressingly, amazing story of the Salem witch trials. Even better it showed how a sensible group o

Rebecca's in the jail...They've surely gone wild now, Mr. Hale...My wife is the very brick and mortar of the church, Mr. Hale-and Martha Corey, there cannot be a woman more closer to God yet than Martha.... Believe me, Mr. Nurse, if Rebecca Nurse be tainted, then nothing's left to stop the whole green world from burning (71).

While some choose to find explanations for strange behaviors or other ordinary things, others choose to use radical explanations to define an extreme situation. Take for example the case of Mrs. Charles Williamson, who on a January morning in 1932 suddenly burst into flames. She had not been beside any fire, nor had she been in contact with any cleaning fluid or other flammable substances. The explanation: spontaneous combustion, or when an unsuspecting person suddenly bursts into flames. Many find this explanation hard to believe, but there are the few who

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