We were discussing that in my comparative religions class today. That witchcraft and specifically the fear of being accused as a witch is a good social construct to keep people in line. Alternatively it can also be used in a type of class warfare, especially in a group that focuses on everyone in the community being a single body, when some people become more wealthy than others (ie. the Porters controlled more land that was good for farming and were closer to the roads than the Puttnams who were more or less isolated from trade on the other side of the village and and less land, and this land was hilly. So of course not the porters themselves but those associated with them were accused to be witches) Anyway yeah postin