The Magic Flute

The Salem Witch Trials began during the late winter and spring of 1692 when a group of young girls began to display strange behavior. They claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused many local women of witchcraft. The first convicted witch was Bridget Bishop and she was hanged. In January 1692, 9-year-old Elizabeth Parris and 11-year-old Abigail Williams began having fits, including violent deformity and uncontrollable outbursts of screaming. After a local doctor, William Griggs, diagnosed…

Salem Witch Trials Witches The word witch comes from the Celtic word 'wicca' meaning 'wise one' or 'magician'. Witchcraft was made a capital offence in Britain in the year 1563. Witchcraft is still illegal in various areas such as South America and India. Most of witchcraft today is practiced in the United States, Back in the times of Salem, witches were people who had seen the devil. During the trials themselves, they were able to identify witches by the witches' mark. The witches' or devils'…

The Salem Witch Trials is a tragic event that happened in American history. As many as 20 people died from being accused of witchcraft. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a play about the witch trials that began in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It all started with the girls becoming “sick”, and started accusing people of witchcraft. Many people were accused of witchcraft, Abigail Williams being the main accuser. Over 200 people were accused, one of them being Elizabeth Proctor, the wife of John…

This book takes place in in 1692 during the Salem Witch Trials, where you were put to death if you were believed to be involved in witchcraft. In the Puritan town of Salem, the church and state were one, meaning that if you went against religion, you were subject to punishment by the community. Many people were accused of witchcraft and sentenced to death. To try and help there case, they would accuse others who they believed deserved to die. Some of the accused, such as Goody Procter, had good…

The Salem witch trials of 1692 can be best described as one of the most infamous periods in American history. Over the span of one year it has been estimated that over 200 people were accused of witchcraft and about 20 individuals were executed. Although this episode appeared to be hysteria driven it was quite obvious that one group of people were more likely to be targeted and condemned. Those that were accused and found guilty there seemed all be members of the community who were not…

Mercy Lewis, and seventeen year-old Mary Walcott began to show similar illness and behavior as Betty. The previously held belief that witchcraft targeted children made the doctor’s diagnoses seem incredibly accurate. Tituba suggested a form of counter magic to heal the girls. She needed to bake a rye cake with the urine of the infected victim and feed the cake to a dog. (Dogs were believed to be used by witches to carry out acts of pure evil and witchery.) By that time, the suspicion began to…

She was raised as a Catholic from birth to age seventeen, although she learned about Wicca and started practicing magic at age sixteen. She studied Buddhism briefly at age seventeen, and then she was a non-denominational Christian from age eighteen to twenty-four. From age twenty-four to twenty-seven, she was a Christo-pagan, which is a Wiccan who holds basic Christian…

Barber-Surgeon I have always been intrigued with the study of medicine. I started school in 2014 with the goal to graduate with a BSN. At the beginning of the semester it was mentioned in class that people in the early 1200 to 1820 there was a Barber-Surgeon. A Barber-Surgeon is a barber that cuts hair, shaves people, pulls teeth, removes superficial tumours, stops haemorrhaging, drains pus filled sores, preforms enemas, used leeches to help with blood clotting, curetted fistulas, and sutured…

it may have been even earlier. Orpheus was born in the area of Pimpleia, although he spent most of his formative years living with his magical family somewhere around Parnassus. Sometime in his teen years, he decided he wanted to know more about magic than his family could teach him, and so he set out to travel the known-world to learn from other witches and wizards. We know that he spent a significant amount of his time in Ancient Egypt where he studied divination. Orpheus and Eurydice,…

According to One News Now, Annie Meadows from the time she was girl she had been drawn to the mystic arts. This fascination that she possessed eventually turned into something much darker as she looked deeper and deeper into the occult. After years of amercing herself in the Wicca a chain of events took place in which she would have to choose between God and her current life style. I’ll come back to the story in a moment but first what do you think of these people who have fallen to this sin?…