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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... caused to be whipped in the coldest season of the year with cords , as those afore , though two of them were aged people ; and having kept them eleven days in prison , and com- manded them to work for the jailor , who had families of ...
... cause , with others , of so sad a calamity to them and their families ; for which cause I de- sire to lie in the dust , and earnestly beg forgiveness of God , and from all those unto whom I have given just cause of sorrow and offence ...
... cause of death . Cannon had suggested that fear might be the emotional cause , with consequent overstimulation of the sympathicoadrenal system , acceleration of the heart beat , and death with the heart contracted in systole . But ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
PART II | 55 |
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