Ok these are mostly ubsurd answers and since I study the witchcraft trials of 1692 ill tell you. There were no real symptoms. The judges and magistrates trying the cases of the accused went only by spectral evidence that the accusers said was happening to them. None of which could be physically proved. Before the trials there where examinations. During examinations they would strip you down of all clothing in front of all the towns people who came to watch and they would search your body for any freckle, mole, birth mark, pigmentation, or strawberry. These where thought to be the places where the devil would drink from them. This only gave more of a ruling against you. How a person would become accused was mostly because other towns folk would have a held grudge against a person for having part of the land that they claim is rightfully theres. Most of these people accused where of course women and most women in salem where midwives to there neighbors and if something happened to that baby while still in the womb or died shortly after birth they believed it was because the midwife had put a curse or spell on the mother and child. Very few in salem where old accused witches. You could also be accused for not coming to church not being babtised or your children not being babtised if you had a poppie that looked similar to an accuser if you where a loner in the village there were many a reason why one would be accused. To me it is a fasinating subject to study and if you are interested to no more then you could contact me or you could go out and buy a book of how it all began and how it all played out till the end.
