The Salem witch question is actually the most interesting one.
History is written by the victors—and neither you nor I were actually in Salem during that period.
It also depends on the definition of witch—and there are many variations of those—and the term probably meant something different then than it does today.
Sort of like how the modern day definition of “vaccine” changed in the last three years?
You pretty much just argued my entire point for me and that point is, people are simply stupid and will believe whatever garbage is thrown in front of them.
The definition of witch was made/created/defined during the Salem Witch Trials period to get people to want to burn other people at the stack. Who cares if it has changed since “by the victors”. What matters is what the definition of witch was when the people were burned at the stake. In short, no matter what the definition was, those so-called witches were just people who were vilified by other people and then murdered.
In that same fashion, the definition of vaccine was charged (a lot faster this time since we have the wonderful tool called the internet) in modern times to get people to force other people to take poison.
Yup...that pretty much sums it up.