No one can't. Almost *Everybody* in seventeenth c. Europe - and outside it too - believed in witchcraft. And even those who didn't believe it worked knew that there were people who did it and that they could do real mischief through the fear they created.

Nazism and the Taliban's extreme brand of Islam were both innovations enforced on peoples who had formerly believed and thought differently. They were furthermore surrounded by other nations who found their doctrines repulsive. They were in short not the spirit of the age.