![]() ![]() Only a small (white, propertied, male) portion of the community having any power. Second of all, I am sure that America of the seventeenth century was pretty frightening – especially with the fire and brimstone taught every Sunday and the hostile native peoples ( can you blame them?). Salem witch trialsįirst of all, I would never have been one of the crazy ones to sail across the Atlantic to settle in America. I found it well-researched and well-written. ![]() ![]() It’s just heart-breaking.Īnd absolutely made me excited to learn about our 20th-century ‘witch hunt’ – the McCarthy hearings. If we accept the idea that no one was REALLY a witch and that the accusers were suffering from some sort of vindictive hysteria or delusion, then a lot of people’s lives were ruined for no reason at all. I didn’t know much about the Salem Witch Trials until I read A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials by Frances Hill. I want to visit all of New England, but this small little town with it’s heavily religious – and dark – history seems fascinating to me. ![]()
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