“as with Anne, Alice Kirfoote began to call out in her fits against Elizabeth Gregory and Agnes Pepwell.” Page 55

This quote is very interesting to me because I think it supports the idea that most people at that time may not have even been fearful of actual witchcraft, and that behavior such as this was just due to mass hysteria. While also being able to be used as a political tool, which was what Anne’s father may have been doing, I think much of this behavior can be linked to town gossip and runaway hysteria. At one point, Anne’s father even believed he was bewitched due simply to “a pain he had in his neck” (p. 54). I think this blatantly supports this idea, and could offer a reasonably explanation on why people were acting in this way.