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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... Mary Walcott , said that Goody Hobbs of Topsfield bit Mary Walcott by the ... Warren v . George Burroughs et al . Abigail Hobbs then confessed before John ... Mary Warren testifieth that when she was in prison in Salem about a fortnight ...
... Mary & Deliverance Hobbs as they attested , & also almost choked Abigail Hobbs , as also testified , & Mr English then run a pin into Mary's hand as she attested . Deposition of Mary Warren v . George Burroughs , John Alden , Martha ...
... Mary Warren , twenty ; Elizabeth Booth , eighteen ; Sarah Churchill , twenty ; and Susannah Sheldon . Mary Walcott was daughter of Captain John Walcott ; Ann Putnam was a daughter of Thomas Putnam ; Mercy Lewis was a servant living in ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
PART II | 55 |
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