we learneed a lot about the salem witch trials in my english class and read the cruicible by arthur miller. It is really sad and then we even watched the movie and when john proctor got hanged (i hate the word hanged i always feel it should be hung) it was so distrurbing. After learning about that we went into mccarthism because what happened there was almost like his own little "witch hunt" because of the fear of communism in the US as the fear was of witches. scary what the hysterical fear of someone can lead to.