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How Social Tensions Led To Wit
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The history of witchcraft during seventeenth century New England is inherently a history of direct confrontations within communities where relationships become tainted with suspicion, revenge and anger. The documents in Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth Century New England have retold the events and sto ....
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.... that was observed of the Parson was out of the ordinary. Consequently, when Mary accuses Widow Marshfield of witchcraft for an unknown reason, it seriously damaged the Parsons social reputation – something that the Puritans took very seriously (Hall 29). From then on, suspicions and lack of trust started to be associated with the Parsons.
Accusations of witchcraft often followed arguments that would increase the social tensions in the community. These damaging accusations were usually the spit.... |
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