The Witch

Inside the house of Reverend Samuel Paris in 1692 started the very beginning of the Salem Witch Trials. A small group of young girls were having fun with their friends and performing “fortune-telling” and “little sorceries” practices. The actions of these girls were all in good fun until one day their games were presented to the general public in which everyone feared the worst. These rumors spread around the town frantically and little did the girls know they were in grave danger. This tale of…

Giles Corey is widely known by scholars of the Salem Witch Trials as the only accused who got pressed to death while all the others were hanged. His execution was the result of refusing to enter into a plea during the trials, which has led to much speculation about Corey and his motives for remaining silent. Was he simply a defiant old man? Or did he have a stronger motive? In this paper, I will be covering the life and the accusations of Giles Corey and speculate on why it may have been that he…

Article 1 Amidst all the madness and confusion that is going on here in Salem Massachusetts, the Salem Scriptures were fortunate enough to catch up with Reverend John Hale on the evening of October 26th 1762. We released this rare interview with the intent that the public would be humbled. Salem Scriptures: Good evening Reverend Hale, would you care to answer a few questions that I have regarding the recent events that have just happened in this town? Reverend John Hale: Sure, I think you…

bring about the downfall of England in the religious and political centers. So, they sought out those few who in their country were stirring up “schemes”; mainly the men and women that they believed were witches. In Peter Elmer’s book, Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England, he focuses on the political and religious atmosphere of early modern England and how this affected the fluctuation of witchcraft persecutions and eventually the demise by the 17th century. It is…

During the Salem Witch Trials and the two-thousand twelve panic there were many motivations to these beliefs. In the Salem Witch Trials, Salem's town believed that there witches among them since a child fell in a sickness and her uncle assumed it was witchcraft based on what he had seen the previous night. The child's sickness motivated her uncle to explore what had happened which lead to mass hysteria in the town of Salem. In two-thousand twelve a similar hysteria…

from it. The accusations only lasted a year until it was over. The result was the Salem Witch Trials, by the end a total 200 people were accused…

“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy”(F. Scott Fitzgerald).“The Crucible”, by Arthur Miller, is a play that was written to depict the events that occurred during the Salem witch-hunts in the 1600’s. In the play, the two main characters, John Proctor and Abigail Williams, had an affair, but John reconciled with his sins and went back to living with his wife. The only problem is that Abigail still wants to be with John. So she believes in order to do this she must first kill Elizabeth…

Yekaterina Gornyachek Political Science 3160 Professor J. Wypijewski Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt By Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedecker Satan’s Silence by Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedecker is a book centered on the cultural and criminal abuse of children (those surrounding satanic ritual abuse). Many accusations/allegations were surrounding satanic cults and children abuse in the 1980’s. Sometimes statements made by…

A group of local girls in the town of Salem, Massachusetts have been spotted performing strange activities in the woods during the night. Local priest, Reverend Parris, states that he witnessed his slave, Tituba, former resident of Barbadoes, chanting around a fire surrounded by the group of girls. Reverend Parris claimed to find it odd that his daughter was out past curfew, so he began to investigate. He was searching for his daughter, Betty Parris, when he spotted the scene. He also claimed…

Thus C. S. Lewis (1950) describes Aslan in his classic tale, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” At the end of the story, Mr. Beaver tells Lucy, “He’s wild, you know. Not like a tame lion” (p. 182). Lewis’s description of Aslan conveys both positive and negative notions. What was Lewis attempting to communicate and can Aslan, in this way, bee seen as a figure of Christ? I have often wondered what Lewis truly meant when he gave these words to Mr. Beaver. On one hand, I appreciate them. The…