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George Lyman Kittredge. 1692 in its due proportions , —not as an abnormal outbreak of fanaticism , not as an isolated tragedy , but as a mere incident , a brief and transitory episode in the biography of a terrible , but perfectly ...
George Lyman Kittredge. 1692 in its due proportions , —not as an abnormal outbreak of fanaticism , not as an isolated tragedy , but as a mere incident , a brief and transitory episode in the biography of a terrible , but perfectly ...
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... outbreak , as we shall see , must be laid to the disturbed condition of the country rather than to the prevalence of any particular system of theology.5 Under Cromwell's government , witch trials languished , not because the belief in ...
... outbreak , as we shall see , must be laid to the disturbed condition of the country rather than to the prevalence of any particular system of theology.5 Under Cromwell's government , witch trials languished , not because the belief in ...
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... outbreak was not due to Puritanism ; it is not assign- able to any peculiar temper on the part of our New England ancestors ; it is no sign of exceptional bigotry or abnormal superstition . Our forefathers believed in witchcraft , not ...
... outbreak was not due to Puritanism ; it is not assign- able to any peculiar temper on the part of our New England ancestors ; it is no sign of exceptional bigotry or abnormal superstition . Our forefathers believed in witchcraft , not ...
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... outbreak of jail - fever at the Oxford assizes in 1579. This was not , and could not be , the ordinary " prison infection . " It was brought about by the contrivances of one Roland Jenks , " a Popish recusant , " who was condemned for ...
... outbreak of jail - fever at the Oxford assizes in 1579. This was not , and could not be , the ordinary " prison infection . " It was brought about by the contrivances of one Roland Jenks , " a Popish recusant , " who was condemned for ...
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... outbreak at Salem was peculiar in its virulence , or , at all events , in its intensity . This is a serious error , due , like other misappre- hensions , to a neglect of the history of witchcraft as a whole . The fact is , the Salem ...
... outbreak at Salem was peculiar in its virulence , or , at all events , in its intensity . This is a serious error , due , like other misappre- hensions , to a neglect of the history of witchcraft as a whole . The fact is , the Salem ...
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Sida 61 - In short, when I consider the question, whether there are such persons in the world as those we call witches, my mind is divided between the two opposite opinions: or rather (to speak my thoughts freely) I believe in general that there is, and has been, such a thing as witchcraft ; but at the same time can give no credit to any particular instance of it.
Sida 9 - That there were such creatures as witches, he made no doubt at all. For, first, the Scriptures had affirmed so much. Secondly, the wisdom of all nations had provided laws against such persons, which is an argument of their confidence of such a crime.
Sida 58 - The Discovery of Witches: in. Answer to severall Queries, lately delivered to the Judges of Assize for the County of Norfolk.
Sida 9 - ... wisdom of all nations had provided laws against such persons, which is an argument of their confidence of such a crime. And such hath been the judgment of this kingdom, as appears by that Act of Parliament which hath provided punishments proportionable to the quality of the offence. And...
Sida 12 - ... he was clearly of opinion, that the persons were bewitched; and said, that in Denmark there had been lately a great discovery of witches who used the very same way of afflicting persons, by conveying pins into them, and crooked as these pins were, with needles and nails.
Sida 8 - Rutterkin) to make away those Children, out of mere malignity and thirst of revenge. But since the beginning of these unnatural Wars, there may be a cloud of Witnesses...
Sida 32 - I think not that their witchcraft is any real power; but yet that they are justly punished, for the false belief they have that they can do such mischief, joined with their purpose to do it if they can; their trade being nearer to a new religion than to a craft or science.
Sida 32 - ... Englishmen closely connected with the party dominant in the mother country, and with their minds broadened by having to deal with questions of state and European policy. After that time they sank rapidly into provincials, narrow in thought, in culture, in creed. Such a pedantic portent as Cotton Mather...
Sida 51 - ... with a great degree of warmth and vigour, as if determined to awaken and engage the powers below. I sa't at a small distance, not more than thirty feet from them, (though undiscovered), with my Bible in my hand, resolving, if possible, to spoil their sport, and prevent their receiving any answers from the infernal world, and there viewed the whole scene.
Sida 14 - A Treatise Proving Spirits, Witches, and Supernatural Operations by Pregnant Instances and Evidences (London, 1672), in Christine Hole, A Mirror of Witchcraft, 31.