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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... called out , " Look where Goodwife Corey sits on the beam suckling her yellow bird betwixt her fingers " ! Ann Putnam , another girl afflicted , said there was a yellow bird sat on my hat as it hung on the pin in the pulpit : but those ...
... called witchcraft , first breaking forth at Mr. Parris's house , several young persons being seemingly afflicted , did accuse several persons for afflicting them , and many there believing it so to be ; we being informed that if a ...
... called , of all matters proper for an ecclesiastical council ; and that you agree how the charges of said council shall be borne before the council be called . We beseech you to study those things which make for peace and edification ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
PART II | 55 |
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