- Mar 2024
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The confession of Ann Putnam, 1706
Was this the first real evidence of supernatural things and exorcist like activities? Did the Settlers from other countries have these issues? Did the Native Americans? WHere did the "witchcraft" origin start?
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The examination of Sarah Carrier, 1692
During this time how were the Native Americans involved? There was war between the the Natives and the people in the villages?
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Andrew Foster
His wife Ann FOster was tried and hung as an elderly widow after he had passed, as well as her daughter Mary Lacey.
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Adam and Charles Black
No direct connection to the trials other than writing about them. Their work changed the landscape in publishing at the time.
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1692
Following the Salem Trials the US Legal system implemented new procedures. The courts started the right to legal representation, cross-examination, and the presumption of innocence because of the abuse during this time
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can truly and uprightly say, before God and man, I did it not out of any anger, malice, or ill-will to any person, for I had no such thing against one of them; but what I did was ignorantly, being deluded by Satan.
The argument here really seems to be that it is not her fault. A lot of people during this time were claiming Satan made them fdo these things
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I desire to be humbled before God for that sad and humbling providence that befell my father’s family in the year about ’92; that I, then being in my childhood, should, by such a providence of God, be made an instrument for the accusing of several persons of a grievous crime
This seems to me like a prisoner finding jesus in prison. I know it is two totally different things. I was actually a little confused at the way it was written, it made it hard to read. It did not seem like a confession really to me.
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afflict
Definition: (of a problem or illness) cause pain or suffering to; affect or trouble
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baptize
Definition: admit (someone) into a specified Church by baptism:
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In the first document, Sarah Carrier testifies that her mother forced her to engage in witchcraft. Her mother, Martha Carrier, was hung one week later.
In another class I am taking, we talk about children and teens as "Adults under construction" They're seen as innocent but also naive. IN this time I wonder why the word of a child was taken for gold. I also wonder why they do not speak of the other woman.
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