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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... took place in the context of the centuries ' old conflict in the Balkans . Joe Mc- Carthy's campaign against Communists was created by the Cold War . The accu- sations of Satanic child sex abuse against seven innocent people in the ...
... took and car- ried away alive . There were two others , who being out of their garrison upon some occasion were set upon ; one was knocked on the head , the other escaped . Another there was who running along was shot and wounded and ...
... took ad- vice before he took this method ; but what pity was it , that he should meet with , and hearken to such bad counsellors ? Poor Andover does now rue the day that ever the said afflicted went among them ; they lament their folly ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
PART II | 55 |
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