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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... innocent blood will serve their turn , hav- ing condemned us already before our trials , being so much incensed and engaged against us by the devil , makes us bold to beg and implore your favourable assistance of this our humble ...
... innocent blood for the world ; but by my own innocency I know you are in the wrong way . The Lord in his infinite mercy direct you in this great work , if it be his blessed will , that innocent blood be not shed ; I would humbly beg of ...
... innocent . The court still proceeded in the same method of trying them , which was by the evidence of the afflicted persons who when they were brought into the court as soon as the suspected witches looked upon them instantly fell to ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
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