Maybe via archeology.............they found some stuff up there.....................i am not sure........but i bet Trump gave it away....."witch hunts"......................interesting wording..........."fake news"......he should now........him and his illuminati buddies own the news....................................
Maine's Place in the Witchcraft Craze
The
Knoxville News Sentinel has a great article that talks about Maine's
connections to the Salem Witch Trials, which are very strong, and which
most people are unaware of. It focuses on the research of Mary Beth
Norton, of the University of Tennessee.
Historian speaks about Salem witch trials
Author talks at UT about her book that debunked myths
By DARREN DUNLAP, April 6, 2007
Twenty
people executed. Nineteen hanged and one pressed to death by stones.
Historian Mary Beth Norton knew the outcome of the Salem witchcraft
crisis and trials of 1692, but she didn't buy the story of how it all
came about.
Her inquiry would result in a prize-winning book
called "In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692." On
Thursday, University of Tennessee students heard Norton's take on the
subject during a lecture called "Salem Witchcraft: Myth and Reality."
She
told students the "standard brief narrative" about the cause of the
trials, one she tested and eventually debunked in her 2003 book.
Allegedly the crisis began this way:
In the winter of 1691-92, a
group of young girls and teenagers, bored with life in the rural village
of Salem, Mass., began experimenting with fortunetelling, perhaps even
with voodoo or black magic, under the leadership of a black slave owned
by a local minister. Out of that, accusations of witchcraft arose and
the hysteria spread into a witchhunt.
Digging through Cornell
University's Witchcraft Collection, Norton found many of the accused
were not from Salem. The accused were not all women, or even young
women. About a quarter of the accused were men, and some of them were
prominent men.
She looked at the region as a whole, which hadn't
been done before, she said. Using that approach, Norton would find a
link between the Indian Wars on the Maine frontier in the 1660s and the
witchcraft crisis. She decided to write a "dual narrative of war and
witchcraft because the two things were totally intertwined."
"I
realized that so many of the people whose names I was familiar with from
the trial records were actually from Maine," she said. "They were
playing out conflicts that had started, in many cases, from years
earlier on the Maine frontier."
The climate of fear from the
Indian Wars figured into the crisis. The towns and settlements of that
time were dealing with a "mysterious enemy" that seemed to appear and
disappear "mysteriously."
"I don't think the northern wars caused
the witchcraft crisis, but the crisis would not have occurred if the
wars had been averted. Because the wars created the climate of fear that
allowed the expansion of the crisis beyond those first accusations,"
she said.
She said New Englanders soon regretted the trials, with
judges and jurors apologizing for their roles and, two decades after
the crisis, the state of Massachusetts compensating the families of
those executed and surviving victims.
Norton's lecture is part of an annual series sponsored by the Milton M. Klein History Studies Endowment at UT.[Source]
There is a terrific essay online by Mary Beth Norton about Maine, focusing on the
Reverend George Burroughs, of Wells and Casco, Maine.
You can read Mary Beth Norton's essay by clicking here.
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