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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... hanged on Gallows Hill . One of the judges , Nathaniel Saltonstall , resigns . Sir William Phipps consults the ministers of Boston , in- cluding Increase and Cotton Mather . They write the Return of the Ministers Consulted , which ...
... hanged on the nineteenth of August ; pregnancy reprieved Elizabeth Procter . To hang a minister as a witch was a novelty ; but Burroughs denied absolutely that there was , or could be , such a thing as witchcraft , in the current sense ...
... hanged as a witch in August of 1692. Every Indian war had brought refugees to Essex County towns from the " eastward . " These persons generally returned to their homes when hostilities ceased , but some stayed . Two victims of the 1692 ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
PART II | 55 |
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