Articles related to "Martha Carrier"

A biography of Martha Carrier, one of the alleged "witches" killed during the Salem Witch Trials. She boldly proclaimed her innocence as those around her confessed.

Historical novel about Colonial American family life around the time of the Salem Trials written by the ancestor of a condemned witch.

Ann Foster was among those who confessed to being a witch in 1692 at Salem, MA, and escaped being hanged. She died in jail months later.

It is important to understand the allegorical nature of the characters in Hawthorne's story Young Goodman Brown.

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

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.

Historians, psychologists, sociologists and others research and theorize as to what caused Salem's mass hysteria, a complex issue, involving many factors.

No one was safe from being accused. The youngest was four. Some were wealthy; others, indigent. There were the infirm. Faithful church attendees were not immune.

A synopsis of Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne; a portrait of Puritan society during the 1600's.