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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... sent to prison . March 6-19 : The girls accuse Martha Corey , a respectable church member , of be- witching them . It is probably now that Betty Parris is sent to stay with the Stephen Sewall family in Salem Town . March 19 : Deodat ...
... sent three of them to you at Boston , viz , the said Lawrence Southick and Cassandra his wife , and Josiah their son ( all of a family , to terrify the rest ) whom ye sent to your house of correction ( as ye call it ) and caused to be ...
... sent for , they accused Mr. John Bradstreet ( brother to the Justice ) that he afflicted the said dog , and now rid upon him : He made his escape into Pescattequa Gov- ernment [ New Hampshire ] , and the dog was put to death , and was ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
PART II | 55 |
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