The Crucible by Arthur Miller (superstition)

Research Paper on Superstitions Superstitions have a way of making their way throughout the years. Superstition is a belief or practice generally regarded as irrational and resulting from ignorance or from fear of the unknown (The Encyclopedia of Superstitions 8). In The Crucible by Arthur Miller the concept of superstitions arose that there was witches among the community. Superstition and fear were in every house, in every mind, when accusation was a conviction, when assertion of …

…girls in spite of the evidence or without evidence that all these people were guilty of witchcraft. All of this misery could have been avoided if the town members question the evidences or question that there was no evidence to condemn these people of witchcraft and not to follow the popular beliefs that there were witches among us. Even though superstition still exists, today an intelligent person knows better than to not believe in superstitions.