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... CHAPTER I The Easiest Room in Hell I. The description of Abigail Williams is deduced largely from her later behavior in the witchcraft proceedings . Little Betty Parris was withdrawn from the public eye so early that very little is ...
... CHAPTER I The Easiest Room in Hell I. The description of Abigail Williams is deduced largely from her later behavior in the witchcraft proceedings . Little Betty Parris was withdrawn from the public eye so early that very little is ...
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... Chapter XI for an inconsistency on the part of the magistrates on this point . 4 . Lawson's sermon , printed in England in 1704 , is quoted in Upham , II , pp . 75-87 . John Procter's outburst is recorded in a deposition by Samuel ...
... Chapter XI for an inconsistency on the part of the magistrates on this point . 4 . Lawson's sermon , printed in England in 1704 , is quoted in Upham , II , pp . 75-87 . John Procter's outburst is recorded in a deposition by Samuel ...
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... Chapter XXII of this text . Lawson , Deodat . “ A Brief and True Narrative . " Boston , 1692 . Reprinted in Burr , pp . 152–164 . Of great interest in that it is the earliest eyewitness report of the witchcraft ; much of Chapter V is ...
... Chapter XXII of this text . Lawson , Deodat . “ A Brief and True Narrative . " Boston , 1692 . Reprinted in Burr , pp . 152–164 . Of great interest in that it is the earliest eyewitness report of the witchcraft ; much of Chapter V is ...
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Chapter Page I THE EASIEST ROOM IN HELL | 3 |
YOUNG PEOPLES CIRCLE | 9 |
THE POSSESSED | 21 |
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