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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... Hathorne . What say you to that , Goodwife Corey ? Martha . What can I say to such folly ? Hathorne . Constables , let go the hands of Martha Corey . [ The Constables let go her hands , and immediately there is a great outcry from the ...
... Hathorne . Know you whence the child got this image ? Martha . Yes , your worship . I myself made it out of a piece of an old home- spun blanket for the child to play with . I stuffed it with lamb's wool , and sewed some green ...
... Hathorne . How appeared she to you ? Mercy . She was dressed like a puppet , finer than I had ever seen her . Hathorne . Olive , what did you wear when you walked with the black man ? Olive . Your worship , I walked with no black man ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
PART II | 55 |
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