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| | MSN Encarta - Salem Witch Trials |
 | | Christian religious courts and secular authorities alike believed that the Devil could give certain people known as witches the power to harm others in return for their allegiance to him. | | | Most of these trials were of women, and most of these women were poor. | | | Old animosities between rival families grew hotter as the shortage of firewood and farmland for a new generation of young married people pitted young against old, debtor against creditor, and farmer against merchant. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_701701818/Salem_Witch_Trials.html
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| | Salem Witchcraft: the Events and Causes of the Salem Witch Trials |
| | George Burroughs’ prayer, Giles Corey’s refusal to stand trial and Mary Easty’s letter began to lessen the public support and faith that the witch trials once had. | | | Not all families wished to rejoin the congregation after the trials. | | | So in 1689, a congregation was formed under the Rev. Samuel Parris and began worshipping in the Salem Village Meetinghouse. |
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http://www.salemwitchtrials.com/salemwitchcraft.html
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| | Linda Caporael's Ergotism Article |
| | The Puritans' belief in witchcraft was a totally accepted part of their religious tenets. | | | And yet it is equally difficult to say that nine out of every ten of the men, women, and children who testified upon their oaths, intentionally and wilfully falsified. | | | However, when Mary was well again, she could not say that she had seen any specters (11). |
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http://web.utk.edu/~kstclair/221/ergotism.html
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| | JURIST - The Salem Witchcraft Trials |
| | When Burroughs on Gallows Hill continued to insist on his innocence and then recited the Lord's Prayer perfectly (something witches were thought incapable of doing), the crowd was reportedly "greatly moved," forcing Cotton Mather, who was in attendance, to intervene and remind the crowd that Burroughs had had his day in court and lost. | | | At Bishop's trial on June 2, 1692, a field hand testified that he saw Bishop's image stealing eggs and then saw her transform herself into a cat. | | | Good was a beggar and social misfit who lived wherever someone would house her (LINK TO GOOD'S EXAMINATION) (LINK TO GOOD'S TRIAL), and Osborn was old, quarrelsome, and had not attended church for over a year. |
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http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/trials7.htm
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| | Religious Movements Homepage: The Salem Witch Trials |
| | Witchcraft in Salem: Intersections of Religion and Society | | | All the women of the village were taken from their homes and executed as witches. | | | The hysteria that snowballed in Salem reveals how deep the belief in the supernatural ran in colonial America. |
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http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/salem.html
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| | The Salem Witchcraft Trials |
| | The Salem Witchcraft Trials were completely outrageous, convicting women with no solid evidence other than a villager saying that they themselves had seen the person practicing black magic. | | | The most shocking was the arrest of George Burroughs, the onetime pastor of Salem Village church. | | | Then, after she was done telling her story, when the magistrate asked her who she had seen doing the witchcraft, Tituba says, "Goody Osborn and Sarah Good and I do not know who the other were. |
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http://www.onlineessays.com/essays/history/his205.php
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| | The Salem Witchcraft Trials |
| | I thought that since this was a religion database and that the Salem witchcraft trials did have some religious implications in its occurrence there might be some hits. | | | The next database that I chose to use was also a religion database. | | | 17 Cleo Kocol, “A Mini-primer on Witchcraft,” Humanist (Oct. 1987): 37-38, available from Religion and Philosophy Collection at http://libweb.hawaii.edu/uhmlib/index.htm, (accessed 25 April 2004). |
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http://www2.hawaii.edu/~naomin/WitchcraftTrials.html
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| | Chapter Excerpt: America on Trial by Alan M. Dershowitz |
| | They paralleled, in some ways but not in others, the trial of Joan of Arc in 1431. | | | These young women said they saw the devil in the shape of an Indian.”22 The Puritans needed a scapegoat to explain why “God’s chosen people” were being slaughtered by the Indians. | | | There are few references to defense attorneys, certainly not in the way we have come to know them over the past two centuries. |
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http://www.twbookmark.com/books/88/0446520586/chapter_excerpt18583.html
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| | Salem Witchcraft Trials: 1692 |
| | The Reverend Samuel Parris was spiritual leader of town of Danvers where the majority of the trials and hangings took place. | | | When pressured to tell who was the source of the problem the girls identified three women. | | | In the end, 19 people were hung and five died due to torture in prison. |
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http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/USA/Salem.html
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| | Salem witch trials - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The law provided for the application of a form of torture called peine fort et dure, in which the victim was slowly crushed by piling stones on him; after two days of peine fort et dure, Corey died without entering a plea. | | | Six of the nineteen were men; most of the rest were impoverished women beyond childbearing age. | | | Of the accused, only one was released when the girls recanted their identification of him. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials
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| | Amazon.com: The Devil's Disciples : The Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials: Books: Peter Charles Hoffer |
| | Students who would like to understand the Salem witch craft and are looking for an accurate book full of quotes dates and footnotes, yet at the same time not at all boring, should read "The Devil's Disciples". | | | Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > Earth-Based Religions > Witchcraft | | | The Devil's Disciples is well-researched study presented in a pleasant, readable style. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0801852013?v=glance
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| | The Salem witchcraft trials |
| | Among the witnesses against him were some who had made no confessions till after torture. | | | Bridget Bishop, a poor and friendless old woman, was the first to be tried. | | | [She retracted her confession, but] the magistrates refused their belief, and, confining her for trial, proceeded to hang her grandfather. |
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http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_I/salemwitc_dh.html
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| | The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692: Introduction |
| | Since the people of Salem Village and Salem Town were of the Puritan beliefs, the girls' activities included sewing, churning butter, and reciting Bible lessons. | | | These events sent a message to all future generations about the dangers of intolerance and religious bigotry. | | | There was no real evidence against the people being accused of Witchcraft just the make believe stories of the hysterical "circle girls" whom claimed these people were Witches. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/mi/WitchHistoryReport/salemintro.html
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| | Today in History: March 1 |
| | See the Library of Congress exhibition Religion and the Founding of the American Republic to learn about the history of men and women of deep religious convictions who in the seventeenth century crossed the Atlantic Ocean to flee religious persecution in Europe in order to practice their faith freely in America. | | | Pressured to explain, they accused three local women of sorcery. | | | Over the following months, more than 150 men and women in and around Salem were jailed on sorcery charges. |
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar01.html
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| |  SALEM WITCHCRAFT TRIALS ![]() |
| | The full covenant of the Church at Salem, founded 1629 | | | In 1689,the Putnams created a new congregation under Rev. Samuel Parris, in which they began worshipping in the Salem Village Meetinghouse. | | | Promyseing to our best abilitie to teach our children and servants, the knowledge of God and his will, that they may serve him alsoe and all this, not by any strength of our owne, but by the Lord Christ, whose bloud we desire may sprinckle this our Covenant made in his name."(http://www.dla.utexas.edu/depts/ams/online/smith/projects/salem2/GROUP~1.HTM) |
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http://www.angelfire.com/oh4/SalemWitchCraft
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| | Digital History |
| | Note the source of the information for use in citations. | | | Follow the links at the bottom of the page to view the entire site. | | | The written document about their roles forces them to be prepared for the trial. |
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http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/lesson_plans_display.cfm?lessonID=23
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| | Salem Massachusetts Witch Trials |
| | P.R.A.N.C.E. also participated in a special Universal Celebration of the Holiday with the Rev. Gail Seavey of the Salem Unitarian Universal Church and the NS CUUPS (North Shore Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans. | | | He survived this brutal torture for two days before dying. | | | This refusal meant he could not be convicted legally. |
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http://www.salemweb.com/guide/witches.shtml
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| | Salem Witch Trials |
| | Karlsen's demographic analysis of the available data shows that not those accused but those convicted of witchcraft in Salem and elsewhere were overwhelmingly women over the age of forty, with women over sixty being at an especially high risk for both accusation and conviction. | | | Of that number, 52 women and 7 men were tried; 26 women and 5 men were convicted; and 14 women and 5 men were executed, the last group on September 22, 1692. | | | As events unfolded, 185 people were accused at Salem, 141 women and 44 men. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/witch.htm
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| | Web-and-Flow Hunt: Salem Witchcraft Trials |
| | How did the day-to-day practice of the Puritan religion contribute to the climate? | | | What does The Crucible say about the HUAC and the McCarthy hearings? | | | These links have to do with historical perceptions of witchcraft in Europe and the Americas, including methods of detection and the people who were persecuted, not with modern-day Wicca. |
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http://www.web-and-flow.com/members/jcooper/swt/hunt.htm
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| | Salem Witchcraft Trials - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter |
| | Books, cauldrons, blessed candles, herbal apothecary, jewelry, body care, spell kits, natural state and polished crystals and stones, incense, statuary and UK imports. | | | One-stop shopping for all your metaphysical needs, including witchcraft books, ritual items, pagan jewelry, tarot cards, and more. | | | Examines the events surrounding the Salem Witchcraft Trials and the unjust treatment of those who were falsely accused. |
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http://www.smarter.com/books-1/product/salem_witchcraft_trials-1483657
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| | Salem Witch Trials |
| | Read the 1959 Newbery Award winning book, The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare. | | | This unit begins with an overview of Puritain doctrine in relation to the Salem Witch Trials of the late 17th century. | | | Cotton Mather had just written a popular book describing suspected witchcraft in nearby Boston. |
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http://www.42explore2.com/salemwitch.htm
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| | Salem Witch Trials Chronology |
| | Some of the accused had previous records of criminal activity, including witchcraft, but others were faithful churchgoers and people of high standing in the community. | | | Several townspeople signed petitions on behalf of accused people they believed to be innocent. | | | This letter had great impact on Governor Phips, who ordered that reliance on spectral and intangible evidence no longer be allowed in trials. |
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| | Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History - - Salem Witchcraft Trials |
| | Historians have had great difficulty explaining this puzzling episode, which was one of the last two witch-hunts in the English-speaking world. | | | This episode is commonly known as the Salem witchcraft crisis, although it began in Salem Village (now Danvers), Massachusetts, a small settlement on the outskirts of Salem Town, and although most of the accused were from nearby Andover. | | | It does seem, however, to have been generated in part by divisions within Salem Village that were magnified because local institutions were unable to resolve the conflicts satisfactorily. |
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http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/women/html/wm_032500_salemwitchcr.htm
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| | Humbul full record view for -- Salem witchcraft trials : Cory family society |
| | This lead to his being pressed to death over two days. | | | The emphasis in this article is on the story of Giles Cory and his refusal to plead when brought before the courts. | | | Although there are some factual errors, such as some of the information on Tituba, the slave, the site is a good basic introduction to the trials and the role of Giles' third wife Martha Corey, who was even denounced by her own husband. |
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| | Humanities Core Course, Week One: The Salem Witchcraft Trials |
| | Social order based on scriptural Law; popular culture believed in witchcraft | | | See also the complete Salem transcripts (University of Virginia Electronic Text Center.) | | | Two interpretations of the Salem Trials and their causal explanations |
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| | Humbul full record view for -- Salem witchcraft trials 1692 |
| | Biographies of some of the key people involved in the trials are also available from the site. | | | The site has been created by Doug Linder from the Law School at the University of Missouri and forms part of the larger Famous Trials web site. | | | This site provides an account of the events of the 1692 Salem Village (now Danvers) witch trials, and provides access to relevant primary source material. |
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| | The Salem Witchcraft Trials |
| | Add this book to your wish list | | | Relates the causes, events, and aftermath of the witchcraft trials which took place in Salem, Massachusetts, in the early 1690's and resulted in the deaths of more than nineteen people. | | | Click on this books subject categories to see related titles: |
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| | Web-and-Flow Reflector: Salem Witchcraft Trials |
| | You began by describing your response to an interpretation of the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria and went on to pull out an abstract idea to focus on. | | | When you hear it, write a solid paragraph that describes the scene, example, information, image, or whatever related to the topic that was most powerful to you. | | | Further reflection showed how emotional truths can sound different from factual ones. |
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http://web-and-flow.com/members/jcooper/swt2/reflector.htm
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| | Salem Witchcraft Trials |
| | You will be asked a series of questions, if you answer correctly you will move on. | | | The Salem Witchcraft Trials began in 1692 when nine-year-old Elizabeth Parris and eleven-year-old Abigail Williams began to exhibit strange behavior, such as blasphemous screaming, convulsive seizures, trance-like states and mysterious spells. | | | Review the readings below, they will help you answer the questions. |
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| | Cases of Conscience concerning evil Spirits by Increase Mather, 1693. | | | A Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft, by John Hale, 1702. | | | "The Trial of George Jacobs, August 5, 1692." By T. Matteson, 1855. |
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| | Salem Witchcraft Trials: Scholarship |
| | Salem witchcraft; with an account of Salem village, and a history of opinions on witchcraft and kindred subjects |
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http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/salem/test/scholarship/scholar.html
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| | Salem Witchcraft Trials:Historical Works & Scholarship |
| | Copyright 2002-05 by Benjamin Ray and The Rector and Visitors of the | | | Salem Witchcraft; with an account of Salem village, | | | and a history of opinions on witchcraft and kindred subjects |
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http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/salem/scholarship/scholar.html
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| | Find in a Library: The Salem witchcraft trials |
| | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. | | | To find a library, type in a postal code, state, province, or country. | | | Find in a Library: The Salem witchcraft trials |
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| | Salem Index |
| | Traffic to Salem is expected to be significant during October, please use these alternate routes | | | The Haunted Happenings contest deadline has now been extended | | | or take the Commuter Rail to Salem's Downtown Depot. |
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| | Salem Witchcraft Trials E-Project |
| | Court records - Primary source documents about the witchcraft trials at the University of Virginia Web Site | | | Biography resource - The same one you can usually access in the 'Research and Databases' folder on this desktop. | | | Last revised Thu Sep 25 4:41:03 US/Pacific 2003 |
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http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listsalemwima.html
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| | Salem Witch Trials Page |
| | Ranking from the University of Virginia's Electronic Resources on the Salem witch trials | | | As featured on CourtTV.com, CBS News and Discovery Channel |
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