The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were famous events in American history. They have been the subject of verifiable articles, religious discourses, books, plays, and films. In both the realm of academia and the pop society of the American social order, the Salem witch trials affected gatherings of people immediately following their occurrence throughout the twentieth century. In a certain sense, the fact that investment in this event has spread across both time and disciplines makes the experiments worthy of study. Despite the fact that the United States is an adolescent nation, it has a rich history. However, American audiences still return to the Salem witch trials through distinct time periods. This article will focus on two scholarly articles they wrote about Puritan beliefs regarding witchcraft. The two different articles are G. Harrison Orians “New England Witchcraft in Fiction” and John Demos “Underlying Themes in Witchcraft of the Seventeenth-Century New England.” Where to evaluate the nature of these articles depended on the validity of the information presented, the use of empirical data, the meaning of the gender roles discussed and also the adequate use and demonstration of the essential sources; John Demos' writing style in "Underlying Themes in Witchcraft of the Seventeenth-Century New England" is much clearer and less challenging to understand than in G. Harrison Orian's "New England Witchcraft in Fiction." by researchers and scholars and furthermore their meaning for contemporary audiences cannot fundamentally be mapped directly. In 1930, according to scholars such as... middle of paper ......ing to Orians, Neal's novel made a "definitive attempt to describe the excitement of Salem in 1692, and opens with fifty pages of history and apologetics" (57 ). This is also significant in that it resembles Orians' assessment of Delusion; or The Witch of New England, which was published in 1840. Orians condemns this feature as having "no factual basis" and "descriptive scenes and characters which are entirely fictitious." In contrast, Neal's work had a couple of characters who depended on "real life" individuals and data accumulated from "historical" sources, for example Cotton Mather's trial transcripts. For many people, particularly non-history specialists, the main information about these trials comes from books, plays and other well-known sources, and Orians records how these sources often deviated from the evidence contained in historical documents..