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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... Nurse and his wife , John Tarbell and his wife , and Peter Cloyes , have been absenting themselves from his church services , almost beg- gars belief . They were , respectively , Rebecca Nurse's son and daughter- in - law , son - in ...
... Nurse and brother Tarbell with this mes- sage : that they meet us the 13 instant at 10 o'clock at the pastor's house , farther to discourse of , and also to have communicated to them , the late advice we spoke of last time from our ...
... Nurse , Francis , 120 , 133 Nurse , Rebecca accusation of , xx , 61-65 , 108 , 200 , 259 , 282 conspiracy and , 289 , 290 declaration to court , 75-76 examination , 64 , 218 execution , xxi , 128 imprisonment , 123 petition in favor of ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
PART II | 55 |
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