Articles related to "Growing Up In Salem"

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The results of possession by the devil is explored. Puritans believe that misfortune is caused by witchcraft.

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