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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... brought upon her trial ; at which , through the efficacy of a charm , I suppose , used upon her , by one or some of her crew , the court could receive answers from her in none but the Irish , which was her native language ; although she ...
... brought in , though , I think , all of them altogether alien to the mat- ter of inditement ; for they none of them do respect witchcraft upon the bodies of the afflicted , which is the alone matter of charge in the inditement . 4. They ...
... brought in , against the prisoner at the bar ; either that he was at a witch meeting , or that he performed things ... brought in guilty , and condemned , merely from the evidences of the afflicted persons . The Salem gentlemen will by ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
PART II | 55 |
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