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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... turned out of the room . The Indian before mentioned , was also brought in , to be one of her accusers ; being come in , he now ( when before the justices ) fell down and tumbled about like a hog , but said nothing . The justices asked ...
... turned their faces towards Mr. Burroughs and looked very red and angry and told him that he had been a cruel man to them and that their blood did cry for vengance against him : and also told him that they should be clothed with white ...
... turned when More's first expressions hinted to her that the visit was the result of accident ; and then , like an inexperienced young thing as she was , ignorant of the cruel rights of coquetry , she felt that she owed the elder some ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
PART II | 55 |
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