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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Frances Hill. knew it , and they knew that we knew it , which made us think that it was so ; and our understanding , our reason , and our faculties almost gone , we were not capable of judging our condition ; as also the hard measures ...
... knew the guilt of keeping a secret from her parents . Yet Betty did not give Abigail and Tituba away , no matter how ... knew in her upright Puritan heart that she was tampering with the forbidden , but she could no more re- sist than ...
... knew something more than he chose to tell ; but before the preacher could rebuke him as he deserved , or pursue the in- quiry with Tituba , his daughter screamed out and fell upon her face and lay for a long while as if she were death ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
PART II | 55 |
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