Good Witch of the North

Dorothy is whisked away to the foreign Land of Oz, but remains calm and only desires to go back to Kansas. Dorothy refuses to be stopped by anything in her way; she bravely begins the journey to the Emerald City alone, battles against the Wicked Witch of the West; she does not give up hope when the Wizard leaves Oz without her.…

A new religious movement may also be known as a cult, and thanks to our modern society; people have begun to connect cults with bad representations and images. Some people believe that cults are a form of practice that brainwash people into doing something that will harm them, this is due to the negative depiction of cults in which we see in today’s film society. Instead cults are meant to represent new forms of existing religions, new contexts of existing religions, or new creations of religion…

Spring 2016 Dr. Robert Miller The Salem Witch Hunt This all started in colonial history, unreasonable actions mostly that were superstition and used to explain events that were viewed as paranormal. This dates back to the Essex County in Massachusetts in 1962. This book is a brief history with documents from the past. This book is written in genuine manner and very easy to read. The panic first started in Salem village, a small farming community north of Boston. By the time the court had…

The Salem Witch Trials began late 1691, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts said they were possessed by the devil and accused three local women of witchcraft. During this time, those that were religious believed that the devil could give certain people the power to harm others. The accusation created panic between people and quickly created a massive witch hunt. A special court was created in Salem to hear the cases of those accused of being a witch. At some point,…

Putnam’s grandfather and Giles fighting over land. He says to Proctor with Putnam in the room, “...he nearly willed away my north pasture but he knew I’d break his fingers before he’d set his name to it” (32). This long-lasting resentment Giles clutches inside his heart builds the fire needed for him to accuse Thomas later, by saying to Judge Danforth: “If Jacobs hangs for a witch he forfeit up his property---that’s law! And there is none but Putnam with the coin to buy so great a piece.…

Early colonists in North America were dumbfounded when they learned that many women in the colonies were doubling as a human, and a witch. During the early years of what is modern-day America, hundreds of women were accused of practicing witchcraft. Many men would accuse females who exhibited abnormal behavior, or family patterns during that time. Husbands, kids, or other family members of accused witches could also be convicted of practicing witchcraft by having any kind of association with the…

The Salem witch trials were a terrible time in Salem, Massachusetts between Spring of 1692 and September 1692, during which there was panic and hysteria over accusations of witchcraft. This was a time of great change. The puritans feared that their strictly religious society was crumbling, and that fear allowed for the hysteria to take over. Young women were accusing vulnerable people of the community, mostly older women, of witchcraft. Women of the time were extremely unequal to men. They were…

Two regional wars occurred during 1675-1678 and 1688-1699: King Phillip’s war and King William’s war, respectively (Norton). King William’s War took place in the duration of the Salem witch trials, which raised the hysteria surrounding witchcraft. In this war, the French inhabitants of Canada and their Native American allies, the Wabanaki tribe, made frequent raids of New England settlements, moving west to east (“Mather, Cotton, Cheever…

cannot do, while also finding itself a part of the stories that humanity tells, such as The Crucible, where playwright Arthur Miller provides a thrilling dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials, while also paralleling the United States’s Red Scare of the 1950s. Long before the Witch Trials, Puritans had come to North America to seek religious freedom and became much like their oppressors, creating a strict society in which religion dictated their lives, imploring them not to sin. Ironically, the…

This panic sparked the creation of several new anti-witch laws that allow for crimen exceptum which is when someone is judged guilty before their guilt is proven. Elias Slattery of the University of Virginia argues, “By choosing to give their souls over to the devil witches had committed crimes against man and against God. The gravity of this double crime classified witchcraft as crimen exceptum, and allowed the suspension of normal rules of evidence in order to punish the guilty.” These new…