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Salem Witch Trials, Part Two: Hysteria and Persecution

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 January 2025

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.

Salem Witch Trials, Part One: Massachusetts on the Eve of the Panic

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 January 2025

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Act of Uniformity, Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, Anabaptism, Antichrist, Archbishop William Laud, assassinations, Austria, Aztecs, Baptists, Bible, Boston, Brazil, cannibalism, Catholicism, Charles I, Charles II, Charles V, Chosen People, Christianity, Christians, Church of England, Commonwealth, Declaration of Indulgence, Devil, Diet of Worms, Dutch Republic, Edmund Andros, Edward Whalley, Elizabeth I, English Civil Wars, Fifth Monarchists, Fifth Monarchy Men, Florida, Francis Higginson, germ theory, Glorious Revolution, Good Old Cause, Great Migration, Habsburgs, Henry Bouquet, High Church, Holy Ghost, Holy Roman Empire, Holy Spirit, Hugh Peter, Huguenots, human sacrifice, Incas, Increase Mather, Intelligence, Interregnum, Ireland, Israel, James I, James II, Jamestown, Jean Ribault at Charlesfort, Jeffery Amherst, Jesus, Johann Cochlaeus, John Endecott, John Winthrop, King James Bible, King Philip, King Philip’s War, Leif Erikson, liberalism, Lost Colony, Louis XIV, Mammon, Marcus Antonius Plencic, Martin Luther, Mary I, Mary II, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Mayflower, Metacom, Naumkeag, Navigation Acts, Netherlands, New World, Newfoundland, Nine Years’ War, Nonconformism, Nonconformists, Norsemen, Nova Scotia, Oliver Cromwell, paganism, pagans, Personal Rule, Philip II, Pilgrim Fathers, Plymouth Colony, Pope, popery, Popish Plot, pox blanket, Protectorate, Protestant Reformation, Protestantism, Protestants, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Puritans, Quakers, Raid on the Medway, Regicides, religious wars, René Goulaine de Laudonnière, Rhode Island, Roanoke Island, Roger Williams, Roman Catholic Church, Royal Charter, Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, Salem, Salem witch trials, Samuel Parris, Satan, Secret Treaty of Dover, sectarianism, Sir George Downing, Sir Henry Vane, Sir William Phips, smallpox blanket, sola scriptura, Spain, Spanish Armada, Sun King, Test Act, The Book of Common Prayer, Thirty Years’ War, Thomas Venner, Titus Oates, Vikings, Virgin Mary, Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Whigs, William Goffe, William III, William of Orange, William Trent, Williamite War, witch panic, witchcraft, witches on January 25, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

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