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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This dark episode in Salem s colonial history has never been more popular than today. Scholarly books on witchcraft and the occult, and museums and fright sites in Salem now draw hundreds of thousands of people each year, especially during the month of October. Many consider Salem the Halloween Capital of the World. Author John Hardy Wright offers the first all-pictorial history of witchcraft in Salem, illuminating the development of witchcraft and the Halloween mania permeating the city today.
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In this imaginative mid-19th-century painting with a "Dutch" milieu, the Albany, New York-area artist has included representatives of the four groups of players who interacted with each other in the Salem witchcraft episode of 1692. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Salem Village, Courtesy Schier Collection, Salem Town, Rebecca Nurse, Courtesy Theriault Collection, New England, Pickering Wharf, Gallows Hill, Cotton Mather, Essex Institute, First Church, Giles Cory, Haunted Happenings, Peabody Essex Museum, Samuel Parris, Bridget Bishop, Philip English, Laurie Cabot, Essex County, George Burroughs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne Inn, Samuel Sewall, Witch City, Courtesy Salem Chamber of Commerce New!
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In this imaginative mid-19th-century painting with a "Dutch" milieu, the Albany, New York-area artist has included representatives of the four groups of players who interacted with each other in the Salem witchcraft episode of 1692. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Salem Village, Courtesy Schier Collection, Salem Town, Rebecca Nurse, Courtesy Theriault Collection, New England, Pickering Wharf, Gallows Hill, Cotton Mather, Essex Institute, First Church, Giles Cory, Haunted Happenings, Peabody Essex Museum, Samuel Parris, Bridget Bishop, Philip English, Laurie Cabot, Essex County, George Burroughs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne Inn, Samuel Sewall, Witch City, Courtesy Salem Chamber of Commerce New!
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- House of the Seven Gables (Great Illustrated Classics (Abdo)) by Nathaniel Hawthorne on page 51, and page 80
- The House of the Seven Gables (Bantam Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne on page 51, and page 80
- Salem Witchcraft Trials by Katherine W. Richardson in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Washington Square (Signet Classics) by Henry James on page 76, and page 90
- Salem Witch Trials (Graphic History) by Michael Martin on page 35, and page 49
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