What Are the Characteristics of Manias?

The town of salem suddenly goes accusation crazy, ac crazy, we could say, sudden. Many of the accusations early on would come fromh dren, which the persecutors would use as evidence for their legitimacy. Children are innocent and pure. Why would they lie? Out of the mouths of babes come truths. The story upon which miller's play is based begins with two girls having epileptic fits,. all the manifestations, essentially, of the damned craft of witchcraft.