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Salem Witch Trials, Part Two: Hysteria and Persecution

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 January 2025

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This entry was posted in History and tagged A Candle in the Dark, A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft, Abigail Faulkner, Abigail Hobbs, Abigail Williams, Alice Parker, Andover, Ann Foster, Ann Pudeator, Ann Putnam Jr., Antichrist, Barbados, Bartholomew Gedney, Betty Parris, Bridget Bishop, Britain, capitulum Episcopi, Caribbean, Catholicism, Charles I, Charles II, Christian humanism, Christian humanists, Christianity, Christians, Church of England, colonies, Connecticut, Constantine the Great, Cotton Mather, Court of Oyer and Terminer, Daemonologie, Devil, Dorcas Hoar, Dorothy Good, Early Church, Elizabeth How, Elizabeth Hubbard, Elizabeth Procter, England, English Civil Wars, George Burroughs, George Corwin, Giles Cory, Glorious Revolution, Gloucester, Gregorian Reforms, Hammer of the Witches, Heinrich Kramer, hysteria, Increase Mather, James II, John Alden, John Barton, John Emerson, John Gaule, John Indian, John Procter, Jonathan Corwin, judges, Latin Christendom, Malleus Maleficarum, Margaret Scott, Martha Carrier, Martha Cory, Martha Tyler, Mary Bradbury, Mary Esty, Mary Lacey Jr., Mary Lacey Sr., Mary Parker, Mary Sibley, Mary Tyler, Mary Warren, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Matthew Hopkins, Mercy Good, millenarianism, Nathaniel Saltonstall, New England, Nicholas Noyes, Oliver Cromwell, Papal Bull, Papal Revolution, Parliament, Privy Council, Protectorate, Protestant Reformation, Protestantism, Protestants, Puritanism, Puritans, Rebecca Eames, Rebecca Nurse, Reformation, religious wars, Roger Toothaker, Roman Catholic Church, Royalists, Salem, Salem Girls, Salisbury, Samuel Parris, Samuel Pepys, Samuel Sewall, Samuel Wardwell, Samuel Willard, Sarah Cloyce, Sarah Good, Sarah Osburn, Sarah Wildes, Satan, sectarianism, Select Cases of Conscience touching Witches and Witchcrafts, slaves, spectral evidence, Stamford, sugar islands, Summis desiderantes affectibus, Susannah Martin, theology, Thomas Ady, Thomas Brattle, Thomas Danforth, Thomas Fiske, Thomas Newton, Thomas Putnam, Tituba, touch test, Wars of Religion, Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Whore of Babylon, William Milborne, William Perkins, William Phips, William Stoughton, Wilmot Redd, witch craze, witch panic, witchcraft, witches, Witchfinder General on January 29, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

The Popish Plot and its Legacy

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 November 2022

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Andrew Marvell, Anglicanism, Anthony Cooper, anti-Catholicism, Austria, Bonfire Night, Britain, Charles II, Christianity, Crusade, Don Juan José, Duke of Ormond, Earl of Shaftesbury, Edmund Berry Godfrey, Edward Coleman, Edward Turberville, Elizabeth I, English Civil War, Exclusion Act, Exclusion Crisis, Francis Walsingham, Francois La Chaise, George Conyers, George Wakeman, Glorious Revolution, Great Fire of London, Great Plague, Guido Fawkes, Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes, Habsburgs, Holy Roman Empire, Immortal Seven, Intelligence, Israel Tonge, James I, Jean Ferrier, Jesuits, John Grove, John Thurloe, Lord Danby, Marian persecution, Oliver Cromwell, Pope Pius V, Popish Plot, Privy Council, Protestantism, Puritanism, Restoration, Roman Catholicism, Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, Society of Jesus, Spain, spies, Stephen Dugdale, subversion, Sun King Louis XIV, Thirty Years’ War, Thomas Osborne, Titus Oates, Treaty of Dover, William Bedloe, William Ireland, William Scroggs, William Staley on November 5, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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