Theory you most believe to be the likely cause of the Witch Hunt.hel

Hysteria affected women at first, causing convulsions, paralysis and suffocation. It also made them more aggressive, that is, doing things that they did not do before, such as yelling, insulting, throwing things, hitting, etc. People thought they were possessed by the devil and that they had cursed them, so people began to be accused of being witches. Sigmund Freud, a well-known psychoanalyst indicated that it was a disease of the mind, but many doctors refused to do so, since they believed that medicines or treatments would cure them

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