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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... Tituba's Roots , " were of par- ticular interest to slave catchers in Barbados . Nonetheless , Burr's mistaken as- sumption regarding Tituba's ancestry as a Carib continues to influence views of her cultural origins . Barbados seemed to ...
... TITUBA.What shape is this ? What monstrous apparition , Exceeding fierce , that none may pass that way ? Tell me , good woman , if you are a woman— TITUBA . I am a woman , but I am not good . I am a Witch ! MATHER . Then tell me , Witch ...
... TITUBA . Look into this glass . What see you ? MARY . Nothing but a golden vapor . Yes , something more . An island , with the sea Breaking all round it , like a blooming hedge . What land is this ? TITUBA . It is San Salvador , Where ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
PART II | 55 |
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