In highschool I didn't learn anything real about the witch hunts or inquisitions, but the topic was discussed in length in history class. The Salem witch trials were a real thing in the USA. A movie was released about it (yeah I know, movies are propaganda spoons, perfect for our bastard education system), which is what my teacher used to discuss the topic. The premise was the a young lady learned voodoo from her family's nigger nanny maid. Her father was the Mayer of the town. She then blackmailed and brainwashed her friends into participating in voodoo magic with her, essentially starting a coven of witches. Together they murdered all kinds of people, especially those that made them feel inferior. They planted evidence on others in the town and the law enforcement there took the bait. They would torture the men and women by putting a board on top of them, and if they didn't cough up information they would put a brick on the board and keep stacking them until they were crushed to death. Eventually the coven was caught and they were executed by burning at the stake. Later on in life I met a co worker that did work in Salem and said he did the tourist thing. He said that the true story is that there was a bunch of ladies who worked in a bread shop and one of their shipments molded on the way to its destination. The mold had psychedelic effects that drove men crazy and made them lose their minds, since they didn't know they were just buzzing on a high dose of mushrooms. The women were detained and killed for poisoning the men I think. Can't quite remember. Either way it all sounds like a load of crap, but I thought you might be interested in the narrative here on the subject in the USA. It's all speculation, though it shouldn't be. Somehow the events were not well documented and all cinema on the subject is trying to change our opinion on the witches to make us empathetic twords females who were burned in suspicion of performing the dark arts.