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A Ghoulish Index of Articles
This is the third index of articles concerning the Salem Witch Trials and other ghostly articles.
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Sarah Good
Sarah Good, an ill-tempered woman living in poverty in Salem Village is accused of witchcraft and of bewitching several young girls.
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More Bewitchings in Salem Village
More girls are bewitched and three women are accused and apprehended to be examined to determine if they are witches.
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Sarah Osborne of Salem Village
Sarah Osborne of Salem Village, having gone from prosperous to poverty is accused of witchcraft.
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The Girls of Salem Village
Salem Village talk concerns a scarlet bodice, a bright turbans, and the charter. Young girls begin gathering in the Parris' kitchen.
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Burroughs’ Debts Are Settled
George Burroughs has a dispute with John Putnam Senior over the ministers unpaid wages and other monies owed.
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Ann Putnam Jr.: Predator or Victim?
As a young girl her accusations sparked the infamous Salem Witch Trials. Was she really a malicious spirit, or simply a pawn in her parent's political scheming?
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Burroughs Suspected of Murder
George Burroughs is arrested for witchcraft. It is suspected that he killed two previous wives, and maybe more.
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The Hanging of George Burroughs
George Burroughs is sentenced to hang for witchcraft along with other accused and sentenced witches.
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The Reverend Samuel Parris
The Reverend Samuel Parris of Salem Village beleaguers his parishioners to love him and bring him free firewood. He is obsessed with always seeing evil.
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Growing Up in Salem, Massachusetts
Life in Salem Village for youngsters: Long Puritan church services, acting as adults, accusing others of witchcraft.
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Tituba, the Salem Slave
Tituba: Indian slave of Samuel Parris in Salem Village tells fortunes and bakes a witch cake. Two girls declared bewitched.
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A Witch Cake Baked in Salem
Tituba, the Indian slave belonging to Samuel Parris, bakes a witch cake using the urine of two bewitched girls. It is then fed to the family dog.
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Burroughs Accused of Witchcraft
Another woman confesses to witchcraft, revealing that there is a Witch Church in Salem Village with George Burroughs as its minister.
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Proctor and Cory Accused in Salem
In Salem Village, more specters of suspected witches are seen. Ann Putnam, Jr. cries out against Elizabeth Proctor and Martha Cory.
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The Reverend George Burroughs
The Reverend George Burroughs, years prior to the Witch Trials, becomes pastor at Salem Village Church. When his wages are withheld he leaves.
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Ann Putnam, Jr. Confesses Guilt
Fourteen years after the Salem Witch Trials, Ann Putnam, Jr. admits that she wrongly accused many for witchcraft.
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Convictions, Hangings, and Pressin
This is the fifth in a series of five indexes concerning the Salem Witch Trials.
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Haunted Witch Capital, Salem Massachusetts
Salem Village, like other haunted places, is the site of tragedies and killings. Some of the ghosts are directly tied to the witch persecution; others aren't.
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October, the Bewitching Month
This is part one of an index of articles concerned with the Salem Witch Trials and the supernatural.
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Osborne Incurs Wrath
Sarah Osborne becomes the enemy of Thomas Putnam Junior, father of Ann Putnam, Jr. one of the bewitched girls. Osborne is accused of witchcraft.
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Salem Witch Trial Index
This is the fourth in a series of five indexes concerning the Salem Witch Trials.
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Sundays in Salem, Massachusetts
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.
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Telling Fortunes in Salem
Salem Village girls are telling fortunes with egg whites until one white takes on the form of a coffin. Tituba tells them Bible stories laced with voodoo.
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The Conviction of Giles Cory
Giles Cory is accused of witchcraft. He refuses to be tried and is pressed to death in order to get him to confess.
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Samuel Parris Points First Finger
Parris points the way towards the Salem Witch Hunt by blasting Tituba, Mary Sibley, and others for baking a witch cake.
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The Haunting Month
This is part two of an index of articles concerned with the Salem Witch Trials and the supernatural. Also there are some links to some spooky articles about the Wild West
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The Salem Bewitchings Begin
Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams begin having violent fits. A doctor declares that they have been bewitched.
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Children Beware of Demons
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.
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Martha Cory Jailed for Witchcraft
Martha Cory is jailed for bewitching Ann Putnam, Sr. Some thirty-nine people are accused for witchcraft and sent to jail.
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Salem's Witch Hunts and Mass Hysteria
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.
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The Devil Walked Among Them
The people of Salem, Massachusetts, like centuries of populations before them well believed in the power of witchcraft.
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Rebecca Nurse Accused as Witch in 1692
Rebecca Nurse was a strong symbol of piety and motherhood. The community was shocked when her sentence was changed from not guilty to guilty.
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Salem Witch Executed, the Rev. Burroughs
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.
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Summary of Young Goodman Brown
A synopsis of Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne; a portrait of Puritan society during the 1600's.
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The New Massachusetts Charter
Increase Mather returns from London with the new charter. Now accused witches can be tried, rather than merely held chained to prison walls.
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Ann Foster a Confessed 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.
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Are You a Witch?
You might be a witch if you are afraid of water, or can't say The Lord's Prayer correctly. Witches say it backward.
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Cursed Be the Salem Poor
Upon becoming a witch, the person is given an animal as a familiar, and can kill or harm both humans or animals.
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Death on Gallows Hill
Bridget Bishop, Elizabeth Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, and others are convicted of witchcraft in Salem and hung on Gallows Hill.
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Hysteria and Terror in Salem
After Tituba's amazing confession specters and flying women are seen throughout Salem.
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More Salem Witch Denials
Tituba is questioned and reveals some startling evidence concerning the devil and a little yellow bird.
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Possession by Demons
The results of possession by the devil is explored. Puritans believe that misfortune is caused by witchcraft.
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Witchcraft in Colonial America
Why were witch trials relatively numerous in 17th-century New England, but much less so in the other colonies? The answer lies in New England's Puritan religion.
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Ergotism and the Salem Witch Trials
Some scholars assert that the mass hysteria in Massachusetts in the 17th century could have been triggered by a common fungus.
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Salem Witch Hysteria, Aftermath
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....
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Salem Witch Persecution: Theories
Historians, psychologists, sociologists and others research and theorize as to what caused Salem's mass hysteria, a complex issue, involving many factors.
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Salem, More Witch Hunts & Accusations
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.
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Extinct Places
A ramp through extinct literature, maps, poetry - and feminist thought - all with Massachusetts natural history in the background. But believe it or not, it's true!
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