I believe that society did learn from the witch trials because it taught us not to judge people for their beliefs. It taught us that the witch trials were a harsh time, and taught us that no one can be trusted because they could be lying. When a crime comes to a court, they could've found the actual criminal or the person could be lying. That person could then take the fall for that criminal and the real criminal could be set free. That criminal could be committing more crimes while the one person that took the fall is rotting in jail.
It taught us that people can be so driven by the madness that they’ll accuse the innocent of what they want. An example is that someone could want a neighbor's land or property. Then that person could pretend that their neighbor had sent their spirit out to the person and they could get their land. Then if that person got charged they could take that land. Today people are less likely to do that because they could get caught and go to jail. If someone today would go to the court and tell them he or she sent their spirit out to them. The court would not believe that person who said that about their spirit. Today a person needs legit evidence and people who actually saw the crime happening.
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Also when something went wrong, they just blamed it on the devil or witchery. Then to prove that a person is siding with the devil a person had to recite the commandments. This is another reason why the court system was bad or corrupt is that no one could actually remember all of them off their head. Also, people don’t always remember to practice memorizing those commandments. If someone didn’t remember all of them then they would get charged with siding with the