“More than once it has been said, too, that the Salem witchcraft was the rock on which the theocracy

“More than once it has been said, too, that the Salem witchcraft was the rock on which the theocracy
“More than once it has been said, too, that the Salem witchcraft was the rock on which the theocracy
“More than once it has been said, too, that the Salem witchcraft was the rock on which the theocracy

“More than once it has been said, too, that the Salem witchcraft was the rock on which the theocracy shattered.” –Burr’s Narratives of the Witchcraft CasesOn this day in 1692, Bridget Bishop was the first woman executed for witchcraft in Salem. From February 1692 to May 1693, twenty people (mostly women) were put to death due to their suspected occult activities. Various leaders of the time, including Cotton Mather, whipped the town of Salem up into this short-lived frenzy that influenced American religious and political thought for years to come.(images from The Witchcraft Delusion in New England … (BF1575 .D75 vol. 1), George Lincoln Burr’s Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 (BF1573 .A2 B8 1914), and Charles Upham’s Salem Witchcraft … (BF1576 .U56 1976 vol. 1)) -- source link


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