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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"witch trials"”.
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Scandalous Beginnings: Witch Trials to Witch City
On June 10, 1692, Bridget Bishop was hung as a witch in the community of Salem Village of the Massachusetts colony. Bishop was the first of twenty that died, all of whom professed their innocence. By the end of the madness, more than two hundred persons stood accused of witchcraft. They attempted …
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Cotton Mather's cosmology and the 1692 Salem witch trials
The Salem witchcraft trials and Cotton Mather's role in them continue to engage the interests of historians and scholars, who have written about them from a number of perspectives, including those derived from most of the social sciences. However, Mather's own seventeenth-century, New England …
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The Crucible of History:How Apology and Reconciliation Created Modern Conceptions of the Salem Witch Trials
… alike have been mesmerized by the Salem witch trials. Most of the literature focuses on the trials themselves and takes one of three approaches: anthropological; sociological; or conspiratorial. Recently Gretchen Adams, professor of history at Texas Tech University, approached the trials …
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Identity and Social Structure in Early Modern Politics: How Opportunities induced Witch Trials in Scotland, 1563 - 1736
… 1563 and 1736 there were 3,212 accusations of witchcraft in Scotland. Existing accounts have identified ideology, conflict or anomie as causes of witch trials. However, for the Scottish case, the combination of the extreme temporal and geographical variation of witch trials on the one hand and …
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Children, Adolescents, and English Witchcraft
… is that of children and their relationship to witchcraft and the witch trials. This thesis begins with a survey of historical done on the general theme of childhood, and moves on to review secondary literature about children and the continental witch trials. The thesis also reviews …
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Dressing the Witch: Clothing, the Body, and Accusations of Witchcraft in Puritan New England
… dress and clothing, played in the search for witches amongst Salem women in 1692. Of necessity to this analysis is a thorough examination of early American material culture and the role in which early New Englanders interacted with newfound notions of materiality. This analysis examines two …
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Truth, Justice and the American Way: Structure, Narrative and Nation in Tourist Performances in Salem, MA
… perspective on the nature of the Salem Witch Hysteria through the selective inclusion, exclusion and parallelizing of various events and characters. These perspectives are analyzed for their broader insight into narratives of national character, examining the way in which national …
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The specter of Salem in American culture
<p>The specter of Salem witchcraft haunts the American imagination. No other historical event has provided such a wide range of scholars, dramatists, fiction writers, poets, and amateur sleuths with a subject that so stubbornly resists a final resolution. Although barely nine months passed from the …
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"Under an Ill Tongue": Witchcraft and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
… and private, in Virginia's dealings with witchcraft during the seventeenth century. The witch trials of New England and Europe during the 1600s have tended to overshadow those that simultaneously took place in Virginia, leaving historians to prematurely regard Virginia as an anomaly of …
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Witches, Masques and Lutes: Scoring the Magical Within Masques and Plays
The world has been fascinated with witches since the beginning of human society. Witches have been documented about as early as in the Bible. Heavy areas of concentration in human history are in Europe, from the late Middle Ages until the beginning of the eighteenth century, when witch trials and …
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To Soar Above the Apple Grove: Stories
… ranging from the black magic associated with the witches of Salem to the whimsical magic of fairy tales. First love is a time of discovery and new joy for so many, and queer literature could use more of these positive stories to show teens and young adults that life does get better.</p>
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Samuel Parris: minister at Salem Village
In mid-January of 1691/2 two young girls in the household of Samuel Parris, the minister of Salem Village, Massachusetts, began exhibiting strange behavior. "It began in obscurity, with cautious experiments in fortune telling. Books on the subject had 'stolen' into the land; and all over New …
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The Devil in American literature : a consideration of four texts.
… World reflects that distinction. As the witch trials demonstrated, however, such a distinction could become dangerous if drawn too clearly. Nathaniel Hawthorne was acutely aware of that danger, but he was equally aware of the dangers of losing the distinction altogether. Chapter Two deals …
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The Significance Of The Devil And Related Beliefs in Early Modern Welsh Popular Culture
… rich folklore tradition concerning the Devil and witchcraft, yet as Clark notes, 'Wales is a region that scarcely registers in the historiography of the so-called witch-craze.' This dissertation examines perceptions of the Devil in early modern Wales, and in the process tries to reintegrate the …