Articles related to "Witch Trial"

The witchcraft trials in Salem represent a very unique event in American history. Many people today have colonial ancestors who were somehow involved.

Numerous people are puzzled by what happened during the Burning Times, height of persecutions, and in more isolated historical occurrences. Hypothetical answers exist.

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

Some scholars assert that the mass hysteria in Massachusetts in the 17th century could have been triggered by a common fungus.

Salem, Massachusetts bustles each October, with Halloween visitors. The site of the Salem Witch Trials, Salem hosts many Halloween events and activities each year.

This is the fourth in a series of five indexes concerning the Salem Witch Trials.

Witch trials in Connecticut? The mass hysteria of Salem's persecution was absent but the injustice of wrongful accusations and suffering from it was there.

In the 1600s, this Basque village's population was terrorized by the Inquisition, hysteria and charges of witchcraft. Pierre de Lancre presided over the persecution.

The horrors of medieval prejudice & fanaticism are alive in Triora, a crows' nest of a village clasped to a rocky peak high above the Italian coastline some 40 km away.

This is the fifth in a series of five indexes concerning the Salem Witch Trials.

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

Fourteen years after the Salem Witch Trials, Ann Putnam, Jr. admits that she wrongly accused many for witchcraft.

Fun, yet historical attractions in Salem include The House of the Seven Gables, The Salem Witch Museum, The Witch House and The Witch Dungeon Museum.

As the first person to be tried for witchcraft in Ireland, Lady Alice Kyteler faced sorcery and heresy charges a century before the start of the European Witch-Hunt.

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.

Be it witches, demons, sorcerors, or the occult, strange and unexplained happenings have been told of throughout history, and here is a collection of their stories.

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

This is the third index of articles concerning the Salem Witch Trials and other ghostly articles.

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.

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.

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 Crucible is perhaps one of the more blatant instances of Miller's use of theatre to represent his socio-political views.

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

Another woman confesses to witchcraft, revealing that there is a Witch Church in Salem Village with George Burroughs as its minister.

George Burroughs is arrested for witchcraft. It is suspected that he killed two previous wives, and maybe more.

George Burroughs has a dispute with John Putnam Senior over the ministers unpaid wages and other monies owed.

Upon becoming a witch, the person is given an animal as a familiar, and can kill or harm both humans or animals.

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

Two pairs of themes in Hawthorne's short story Young Goodman Brown are those of guilt versus innocence and good versus evil.

When compiling their genealogy Charles Austin and wife Carol found he descends from a confessed witch and she from the person who was bewitched.

After Tituba's amazing confession specters and flying women are seen throughout Salem.

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.

Martha Cory is jailed for bewitching Ann Putnam, Sr. Some thirty-nine people are accused for witchcraft and sent to jail.

More girls are bewitched and three women are accused and apprehended to be examined to determine if they are witches.

Tituba swears that Osborne and Good bewitched the girls and wanted her to cut off Ann Putnam's head.

Tituba is questioned and reveals some startling evidence concerning the devil and a little yellow bird.

Lives of Writers of the New World were often predetermined by Old World traditions. Hawthorne's family history was based on the tradition of a curse.

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

In Salem Village, more specters of suspected witches are seen. Ann Putnam, Jr. cries out against Elizabeth Proctor and Martha Cory.

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 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.

Parris points the way towards the Salem Witch Hunt by blasting Tituba, Mary Sibley, and others for baking a witch cake.

Sarah Good, an ill-tempered woman living in poverty in Salem Village is accused of witchcraft and of bewitching several young girls.

Sarah Osborne of Salem Village, having gone from prosperous to poverty is accused of witchcraft.

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

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.

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.

A coven of over 200 witches, known as the Berwick Witches, plotted to kill King James VI of Scotland in 1590. The details of this plot are now revealed.

Giles Cory is accused of witchcraft. He refuses to be tried and is pressed to death in order to get him to confess.