Maine's Place in the Witchcraft Craze

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...

Monday, April 09, 2007

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.