In addition to the many different views of witchcraft, be it positive or the negative, from various communities throughout the years, one also has to consider the impact it has left through the course of history. A well-known impact or event that concerns witchcraft is the Salem Witch Trials. It was an event that lead to hearings, persecutions, and accusations of people that were said to be dealing with witchcraft. When witchcraft was discovered in Salem, Franklin Mixon states, “No fewer than six other ministers soon came to Salem… idle superstition was not permitted, and "spectral evidence" was admitted in court by the ministers who served as counsel and jurists in the proceedings which would follow (Starkey 1963, 28-29)” (Mixon, pg.2). The