Bewitched

town have accused her of witchcraft. Abby Williams was one of them, she said “That no good witch put a spell on my cousin and now she can’t move. She’ll pay for that in hell.” Abby Williams is the respected niece of Reverend Parris and is often bewitched in court. When Sarah Osborne was on trial Abby became very ill “I was throwing up with all the other girls, all 13 of them! Do you think we could make that up? It was Sarah is making us do that. She deserves to be hung.” Sarah Osborne will be…

helped the civil rights act. People can learn important lessons from others that take bold actions. In the greek myth Icarus, Daedalus and his son Icarus take a bold action by building wings and escaping the island they are imprisoned on. Icarus is bewitched by his new sense freedom and takes a risk by flying high.…

disavow my claim reverend? This woman is one with the devil, let me tell you. He again points at Rachel while saying this, who has remained stoic despite the events unfolding. She killed one of my best dairy cows just by looking at her funny. She had bewitched her, I tell…

return and she wishes she never fell in love with him. She believes him to be a figment of her imagination because he is nowhere to be found. The first two lines in the third stanza reads “I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed and sung me moonstruck, kissed me quite insane.” (Plath, Sylvia) Bewitched means to charm or enchant. (Bewitch) Moonstruck means to be unable to think straight or act foolishly because you are in love. (Moonstruck) That was her telling us that she fell in love with him.…

innocent people were put to their death for truly grotesque reasons. One morning in January of 1692, two girls by the names of Betty Parris and Abigail Williams began experiencing anomalous fits, eventually leading to the accusations that they had been bewitched. Gradually, an increasing number of children began experiencing these fits which, unequivocally, began startling the Puritans of Salem, Massachusetts. In pursuit of ceasing the source of this madness, law…

they sat through the trials. Reverend Parris had the two original accusers, his daughters, examined by an elderly doctor who claimed the girls were touched by evil. “This was the worst of all possible news because it meant that the two girls were BEWITCHED!” (Schanzer 22) The doctor overlooked possible medical diseases of the time because of the hysteria over possible witchcraft. “Was there really a dread disease running rampant in New England? If so, could it have been encephalitis or Lyme…

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I believe the year was 1967, somewhere close to that. I overheard conversations of travelling out of state. Our mother told us years later why we left Indiana. A judge ordered our father to leave the state, and if he didn’t, next time he will make sure prison will be my father’s destiny for the rest of his life. The rape case, apparently he indulged in a sexual encounter with a young woman that was mentally disabled to a degree. The fact he offered pocket change and placed it in her hand before…