Articles related to "Cotton Mather"

Cotton Mather: Investigated cases of witchcraft in Salem and Boston and orders execution of George Burroughs for witchcraft.

Cotton Mather, during the Salem Witch Trials, urges the acceptance of spectral evidence. George Burroughs is hanged for witchcraft.

This is part one of an index of articles concerned with the Salem Witch Trials and the supernatural.

The children of Salem Village lived a strict and restricted life, controlled by adults. Cotton Mather warns all to be aware of demons among them.

John Foster of Boston is widely recognized as the first American to use a wood design as a printing block. He executed a portrait of Cotton Mather around 1670

The mass frenzy had to end. People lived in fear of being accused as a witch, in addition to anxiety of the alleged practitioners. Some good came out of the horror....

Puritan men feared losing control of their women. So, in 1692, they found a way to control them; causing hysteria throughout their village.

For the children of Salem Village Sundays consisted of sitting still on hard benches through two three-hour sermons. They had to work hard, pray, and have no fun.

The people of Salem, Massachusetts, like centuries of populations before them well believed in the power of witchcraft.

Bridget Bishop is accused of coming to men's beds and bewitching them.

"Infamous Scribblers" offers a fascinating look into the evolution of early American journalism and the printers and writers involved.

Puritans believed witches existed and made pacts with the Devil. They had to be found, tried and executed. Suffer not a witch to live.... Not even in the Colonies.

Increase Mather returns from London with the new charter. Now accused witches can be tried, rather than merely held chained to prison walls.

Persecution of witches was most apparent in Colonial New England where strict Calvinist views formed the basis of a theocratic, Old Testament model that accepted witches.

You might be a witch if you are afraid of water, or can't say The Lord's Prayer correctly. Witches say it backward.

Bridget Bishop of Salem: Accused of witchcraft, practicing black magic, bewitching men and children, making money disappear.

Life in Salem Village for youngsters: Long Puritan church services, acting as adults, accusing others of witchcraft.

Though Edward Jenner is credited with developing the first smallpox vaccine, inoculation had long been practiced in other parts of the world.

Sarah Osborne becomes the enemy of Thomas Putnam Junior, father of Ann Putnam, Jr. one of the bewitched girls. Osborne is accused of witchcraft.

Happy Feet is a charming tale of penguins, fish, and contains many great musical numbers. Just don't look for a rich and rewarding plot.

These stories - written between 1962 and 1970 - range from surreal and dark to whimsical and weightless, usually all at once. Results vary, but brilliance is apparent.

Field trip activities on Boston's Freedom Trail make the American Revolutionary War and United States colonial history come alive for students of all ages

John Winthrop and Richard Mather gave accounts of their Atlantic crossing in the 1630s. Both played important, formative roles in early Massachusetts.

Bridget Bishop, Elizabeth Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, and others are convicted of witchcraft in Salem and hung on Gallows Hill.

What role did the Scottish Enlightenment play in Jefferson's views on religious freedom, and would he have seen the United States as a Christian Nation?

Puritanism may be the most maligned religion in American History but conflict with the Anglican Church was a cause of the English Civil War and the American Revolution!

The first novel by Kathleen Kent is a piece of historical fiction inspired by the story of the author's ancestress during the dark episode of the Salem witch-hunt frenzy.

No one was safe from being accused of practicing witchcraft. The youngest was a child of four. Among the others were a Puritan minister and a prominent family's son.

The Salem Witch questioning begins with John Hathorne grilling Sarah Good, in hopes that she will confess to witchcraft. Her own husband gives the damning statements.

Stone throwing events occurred in times when people believed witchcraft was real and that practitioners made pacts with the devil. Poltergeists were considered demons.

The Afflicted identified the minister as the "Black Master" who was the high priest of the Salem Coven, adding the clichéd fuel to Ann's fanatical fire.

The Hollow Earth Theory was remarkable in its ability to survive the scientific advances of the 18th and 19th centuries, surviving even until the early 20th century.