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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... tell their charge against Mr. Parris , and now they had witnesses to prove it . After much agitation Brother Nathaniel Putnam was by vote of the church chosen to put to vote which was needful . And it being put to vote whether they ...
... tell . " " And being [ again ] urged for her opinion in the case , all she would say was , ' My opinion is they are ... tell what said Rebecca did tell me in my house . And if the said Rebecca told me of the stealing , the said Hoar ...
... telling Ann that the specters of his first two wives would shortly appear to her but that they would tell a great many lies , to which she must not listen . Then immediately appeared to me the form of two women The Historians 241.
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
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