The people of Salem and the surrounding Puritan areas were under severe amounts of stress and pressure. This extreme amount of stress and pressure came from the fact that the way their social stability and order was maintained throughout the towns. The Puritans believed that social order, stability, and peace were very important in trying to achieve their greatest goal, to make "Earth more like Heaven." In trying to pursue this goal, that many of the townspeople wanted so badly, they felt that one of the only ways to achieve this goal was to keep a very rigid and harsh social structure, with laws and punishments. "Order coexisted with an institutional savagery that appeared in the BURNING of r

In the trial of Bridget Bishop, who was tried for being a witch also, she was also accused of tormenting others just as Susanna Martin. She never admitted to doing so to anyone, but she said that she was tempted by others. "Wildes and Bishop or Oliver, Good and Osborne, and they had a Feast both of Roast and Boiled meat and did eat and drink and would have had me to have eat and drink with them, but I would not and they would have had me Signed, but I would not then nor when Goody Oliver came to me." So in this case Bridget could have suffered from hysteria and imagined these women tempting her to do any tormenting.

dults were to be married they had to go through the customs that involved bundling boards and courting sticks. For young people this would be a rather stressful time.

In the trial of Susanna Martin, who was tried for being a witch, she herself did not suffer from hysteria, or fits, but it was said that she had the ability to cause fits on other people. "As soon as she came in many had fits." Even though Susanna Martin never admitted to hurting anyone, many women claimed that she was their tormenters and made them suffer from hysteric like symptoms. If these people like Mercy Lewis, and Mary Walcott, whom both shouted out in court that Susanna Martin was their tormenter, suffered from uncontrollable fits, which is a hysteric symptom, then they might as well have suff

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