Records of Salem Witchcraft: Copied from the Original Documents ...Priv. print. for W.E. Woodward, 1864 - Trials (Witchcraft) |
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Abigail Williams afflicted againe againſt aged almoſt alſo Ann Putnam anſwered appear Apperiſhtion arts aſked Biſhop body brought called charged child choaking County of Eſſex Court cryed daughter Dayes deponent Devil Divers Dorcas Hoar Eliz Elizabeth Hubbard examination further George Jacobs going Goody hand hath hir examination Hoar houſe hurt John JONATHAN Joſeph June Jurat in Curia kill King and Queen knew Lady the King laſt live look Lord and Lady March mark Martin Mary Walcott Mary Warren Mercy Lewis moſt greviouſly never night Nurſe oath perſons pinching preſent Proctor ſaid Salem Village ſame Sarah ſaw ſay ſee ſeen ſeverall ſhe ſhee ſhould ſince ſome Sovereigne Lord ſuch Suſannah taken tell teſtifie teſtifieth and faith teſtimony Thee theſe thing told tormented tortor tould truth vpon wife witch woman
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Page 60 - May, in the fourth year of the reign of our sovereign lord and lady William and Mary, by the grace of God of ' England, Scotland, France and Ireland, king and queen, defenders of the faith, &c.
Page 198 - No, my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out they are another's. Their master.. Magistrate. Their Master: Who do you think is their Master? Martin. If they be dealing in the Black Art, you may know as well as I.
Page 18 - Sarah Good do you not see now what you have done, why do you not tell us the truth, why do you thus torment these poor children A. I do not torment them.
Page 48 - ... leggs. [H] did you not see Sarah Good upon Elizabeth Hubbard, last Saterday. [T] I did see her set a wolfe upon her to afflict her, the persons with this maid did say that she did complain of a wolfe. T. shee further saith that shee saw a cat with good at another time. [H] What cloathes doth the man go in [T] he goes in black clouthes a tal man with white hair I thinke [H ] How doth the woman go [T] in a white whood and a black whood with a top knot [H ] doe you see who it is that torments these...
Page 62 - May in the fourth year abovesaid, and divers other days and times as well before as after, was and is tortured, afflicted, pined, consumed, wasted and tormented, against the peace of our sovereign lord and lady the king and queen, and against the form of the statute in that case made and provided.
Page 121 - She said I shall not speak a word: but I will I will speak Satan. — she saith she will kill me. Oh! she says she owes me a spite and will claw me off. Avoid Satan, for the name of God...
Page 141 - VOICE: Now, Martha Corey, there is abundant evidence in our hands to show that you have given yourself to the reading of fortunes. Do you deny it? MARTHA COREY'S VOICE: I am innocent to a witch. I know not what a witch is.
Page 172 - Silk Mantle with a Top knot and an hood. She confesseth further that the Devil in the Shape of a man came to her and would have her to afflict Ann Putnam Mercy Lewis And Abigail Williams and brought their Images with him in Wood like them and gave her thorns and bid her prick them into these images which she did accordingly into each of them one and then the Devil told her they were afflicted which accordingly they were and Cried out they were hurt by Abigail Hobbs, She confesseth She was at the...
Page 236 - James the Second by the Grace of God of England, Scottland, ffrance and Ireland King Defender of the faith &c To all whom...
Page 37 - She answered that she was frighted one time in her sleep, and either saw, or dreamed that she saw, a thing like an Indian all black, which did pinch her in her neck, and pulled her by the back part of her head to the door of the house.
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| Title | Records of Salem Witchcraft: Copied from the Original Documents ... Volume 2397 of History of women Volume 1 of Records of Salem Witchcraft: Copied from the Original Documents, William Elliot Woodward Issues 1-2 of Woodward's historical series |
| Contributor | William Elliot Woodward |
| Publisher | Priv. print. for W.E. Woodward, 1864 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Oct 17, 2007 |
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