The Point is not What the Trigger was -- the Point is, Why Accuse That Individual?

[alfreda89]

A new article talking about the Salem Witch Trials. The journalist talks with a writer who is sold on jimsonweed as the causative agent, and a historian who says whether ergot, or jimsonweed, or a disease was the trigger isn't as important as who was accused and why the people of that time chose witchcraft as the accusation.

In one theory, the girls went crazy. The historian suggests that the town went crazy.