![]() These rumors are largely encouraged by Abigail, a 17-year-old girl, in order to frame Elizabeth Proctor as a witch, so that she can win over her husband John Proctor. In the insular, Puritan community of 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, a group of young girls are found dancing in the woods, and immediately fall ill. Before long, Elizabeth is suspected of witchcraft, and Johns. Accusations begin to fly, and a literal witch hunt gets underway. In 1962, accusations of witchcraft wreak havoc in the isolated and theocratic society of Salem. When the ritual is discovered, the girls are brought to trial. It premiered in Germany in 1949 and in the U.S. exile Lion Feuchtwanger wrote Wahn, Oder der Teufel in Boston in 1947, and he used the witch trials as an allegory for persecutions against suspected communists.
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