Tag Archives: Puritanism

Salem Witch Trials, Part Two: Hysteria and Persecution

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 January 2025

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A Note on Massachusetts and Slavery

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 January 2025

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The Popish Plot and its Legacy

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 November 2022

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America, Puritanism, and Hysteria

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 July 2020

The Witch (2016) is set in the Plymouth Colony, what is now the U.S. state of Massachusetts, in the 1630s. The focus is on Puritanism and the witch craze, subjects that are not entirely irrelevant at the present time. Continue reading