It time for another What if... Thread!

[Tonus]

Actually, I was thinking that if witches were real like they are protrayed in the movies, no wonder they were burned.. Then I thought well according to scripture, witches were in league with demons, and just about anything thier could be possible.. Which made me turn to the salem witch trials, and what most of you think about that... which made me say to myself the atheist arguement is based in the belief/faith that nothing supernatural could ever occour, which beggs the question what if it did to the degree we see in the movies what would those buggers do then?

If a handful of people began to fly around, shape-shift, teleport, cast spells, and so on, pretty much everyone would accept that such things were happening and therefore possible. If they were assaulting people or murdering and eating children, society would seek to address that. If they proved impossible to incarcerate and continued to hurt and kill people, society would likely decide to invest in flamethrowers and water pistols.

It's also possible that many people would seek to become witches, desiring the power to fly and to get back at others with a few incantations, and enjoy the occasional baby-back ribs Fat Bastard-style. The question then would become, is there a countervailing force that would make that a bad decision? That is to say, would there be some benevolent force that would allow people to fly and cast beneficial spells and live off of tasty dirt so as not to harm any living creatures, and who could conjure rain showers with a snap of their fingers?

Or would there be a few crotchety old preachers insisting that the power of god would solve everything... just as soon as he got around to it? And that the only way to save the town was to give them as much political and social power as possible (along with a good helping of money and material goods)? And to blindly follow their lead so that if they pointed at a person and said "SHE'S A WITCH" they'd immediately lash her to a stake and set her ablaze, without bothering to confirm that she was a witch?