Thankfully, we don't do that sort of thing today. Evidence is required when convicting witches, like in the current collusion investigation.

I'm writing a fictionalized account of the only trial to be held in philly. Its quite interesting how perception and fear had folks make sense of what they saw and heard. For example, it didn't make sense that a woman from sweden would be speaking with a drawal the neighbors had a hard time understanding, so they claim she spoke in tongues. An unusual dry summer caused milk production to wane, the community believed she cursed the cows & goats. Our brains try to interpret what we see into something familiar. When it cannot, we make monsters and stories to reason out occurrences. I think i had the petception that the witch trials were much larger than they actually were. Agreed, its a terrible thing, but what actually occurred is pretty interesting if the details of individual stories are explored.

If this is something that is "constantly on your mind".... You REALLY need to get a hobby!

That's one of the big problems with religion. Once you embrace the irrational, you can end up in a lot of strange, kooky places.