The Salem Witch Trials ReaderHachette Books, 19 paź 2000 - 440 Against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and recurrent smallpox epidemics, a small group of girls denounces a black slave and others as worshipers of Satan. Within two years, twenty men and women are hanged or pressed to death and over a hundred others imprisoned and impoverished. In The Salem Witch Trials Reader, Frances Hill provides and astutely comments upon the actual documents from the trial--examinations of suspected witches, eyewitness accounts of "Satanic influence," as well as the testimony of those who retained their reason and defied the madness. Always drawing on firsthand documents, she illustrates the historical background to the witchhunt and shows how the trials have been represented, and sometimes distorted, by historians--and how they have fired the imaginations of poets, playwrights, and novelists. For those fascinated by the Salem witch trials, this is compelling reading and the sourcebook. |
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... ELIZABETH FLINT JONATHAN BYSHOP ELIZABETH KETTEL DAVID BYSHOP MARY HERRICK MARY TARBELL WILLIAM BUCKLEY MARY NURSE WILLIAM BYSHOP MARY RAIMENT THOMAS RAIMEN EDWARD BYSHOP ISAAC NEEDOM SAMUEL UPTON WILLIAM UPTON JONATHAN HOLTIN JONATHAN ...
... Elizabeth Proctor , an accused witch , claimed that she was responsible for the death of a man because Dr. Griggs had not been sent for " to give him physic . " Elizabeth Hubbard , the great niece of Dr. Griggs ' wife , was living with ...
... Elizabeth Paine and Elizabeth Fosdick . His son , Constable John Putnam , Jr. , also a member of the conspiracy , signed several complaints and testified against many . Lieutenant Nathaniel Ingersoll , the innkeeper , was the final ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
PART II | 55 |
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