Avery Baldridge4/8/14LA 3The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were grueling trials used to separate "agents of Satan" from the mortals of the natural world (Schanzer 11) . Parallel to these trials, the Hundred Years' War was also taking place. Christian churches were struggling to maintain control and so everyone in the community was on edge (Kent 14). The Puritans, “an English religious sect hoping to live a simple, God-fearing life and create heaven on earth,” believed that anyone who did not follow the teachings of the Church was in league with the Devil (13). As a result, more and more people were accused of witchcraft (Kent 19). the customs and beliefs of the Puritans of Salem, Massachusetts led to accusations, and ultimately trials, of witchcraft. The customs and beliefs of the Puritans were strongly based in religion. They believed in two very different worlds; the natural world, which includes everything we can see or touch, and the invisible world, which includes everything that cannot be seen or touched. However, there are two distinct parts of the invisible world. Like Rosalyn Sc...