How did people react to witches and witch craft?

during the salem times, people reffered witch craft as dark magics that is related to satanism and bad spirits and curses. this ideology is because witch craft is considered a religion not practised by Christianity and therefor banned since during that time religion played a big part in governments and social status. people then feared it and against the practice. even today, some people are sceptisism towards witch craft and claim it is dark magic while there are those who claims that witch craft is divided to black and white magic and most witches now used white magic.