Cases of Witchcraft Declined After the Middle of the Seventeenth

Cases of witchcraft declined after the middle of the seventeenth century

A) because authorities feared that such actions threatened their own authority.
B) because ordinary people embraced scientific explanations of natural events.
C) because people living in urban environments felt less vulnerable to mysterious forces.
D) both because authorities feared that such actions threatened their own authority and because people living in urban environments felt less vulnerable to mysterious forces.
E) All these answers are correct.