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Sorcery in Salem

Sorcery in Salem

Wright, John Hardy

Paperback

Series: Images of America

Mythology & FolkloreGeneral PhotographyRegional: New England

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 0738500844
ISBN13: 9780738500843
Publisher: Arcadia Pub (Sc)
Published: Oct 12 1999
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.64 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
In Sorcery in Salem, local author John Hardy Wright examines the witchcraft delusion that afflicted Salem Village and Salem Town in the winter of 1691-92. Twenty inhabitants lost their lives at that time; nineteen were hanged on Gallows Hill, and one elderly man, Giles Cory, by remaining mute as a personal protest to the proceedings of the court, was pressed to death under heavy weights. Once the prosecuting examinations began on March 1, 1692, local authorities were uncertain what course the following trials would take. Spectral evidence, in which the shape of a suspected witch tortured people, was a primary indication of guilt, as was the touch test, in which a victim was released from the witch's power upon the laying on of hands. Not being able to correctly recite the Lord's Prayer was also damning.

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