Ujm, I suggest reading (in a kosher venue) about the salem witch trials before drawing conclusions, making comparisons, or anything else. Shimon ben shatach went to a genuine “coven”, or kevutzah of witches who were known to be so. There’s no record that they denied it and were therefore required to undergo a din Torah.
The Salem witch trials, lehavdil elfei havdalos, followed a scare in the colonies that there were kishuf practitioners among them, without any actual evidence whatsoever. A similar scare occurred with the help of daytime television hosts in the 80s and early 90s, referred to as the “satan scare”, whereby “survivors” of purported satanic human slaughter cults would recount their traumatic experiences, having supposedly witnessed suburban well-off families engage in ritual human sacrifice. These accounts were “rediscovered” in their memories via a sort of meditation and hypnosis, because they supposedly all blocked out such horrifying childhood memories. It was later revealed to be a cooky pipe dream, but it was exploited for ratings and publicity.
Any woman who stood out at the time was suspect; there was no due process or cross examination of witnesses. The method of testing the accused was exceptionally irrational and barbaric – they dropped them in the water, because if they survived by “flying” away, it proved their involvement in the dark arts, while if they drowned, it posthumously proved their innocence.
Even the ancient Greeks would have recoiled at this “legal” system. To draw any parallels to our holy chachamim and their enforcement of halacha is unthinkable.