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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... fear was insufficient for the touching the lives of any , Deut , 17. 6 , whereby we fear we have been instrumental with others , though ignorantly and unwit- tingly , to bring upon ourselves , and this people of the Lord , the guilt of ...
... fear of her life by the Hoars till quieted by the scripture , " Fear not them which can kill the body . " Theft was not a capital crime in seventeenth - century New England ( although it was in seventeenth - century England , and ...
... fear of the result , he invariably refused to operate . Cannon's hypothesis was tested in the Psychobiological Laboratory at Johns Hopkins Medical School by Curt P. Richter , who published his findings in 1957 in an article entitled ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
PART II | 55 |
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