The word witch comes from the old English word ‘Wicca’ (meaning healer); back then most people considered a witch to be a wise-woman, with great skills and often called upon to heal the sickly. They were known to be kind souls, but as Christianity spread, witches came known as evil because their powers did not come from God. Witch became looked at as ugly because evil is ugly. To get rid the world of the evil that witches brought they would hang them, or burned them at the stake. The first witch to be hung was a young woman in Connecticut; followed by another killing and then another, but the most traumatic witch-hunt in America took place in Salem, many people are told to have died during this hunt.

The Salem was the tale of eights girls between the ages of 12-14, who began to show signs of being possessed, like hearing voice and doing bad things. Though to cover up there evilness the girls told the court hundred and fifthly people who they accused of being witches, most of which were hung, and a lot of them who were killed happen to be innocent people. It wasn’t until 1957 that the court had realized that the girls were lying and cleared all those accused of witchcraft, but they could never bring back the lives of the innocent people they had killed; even worse the girls had no remorse for what they had done and were never punished for the lies they told, and the lives the took. Nowadays witches are not considered evil though there are not many around anymore, the witch is still one of the most beloved Halloween costumes.