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Economic hardship
Poor weather
Inflation
Civil War
Increased tensions between upper and lower classes
Breakdown of traditional authority
Royalist clergy were replaced by Puritans
Royalists and Catholics linked to witchcraft
Gentry went to fight
Breakdown of traditional legal system
More trials put on in court
More trials of multiple people
Inexperienced local magistrates in charge
Assize judges unable to visit due to fighting
Hopkins and Stearne
Used wide variety of torture
Critics singled out Hopkins
Hopkins helped begin the craze
Travelled to increase spread of trials

Why was the witch craze so widespread between 1645 and 1647?
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