Massachusetts has one thing most other states don’t. It’s a state heroine, and her name is Deborah Sampson (1760-1827). She was a schoolmarm and lecturer turned Revolutionary war heroine. According to masshome.com, the state also claims an official vessel (the schooner Ernestina), an official poem (“Blue Hills of Massachusetts” by Katherine E. Mullen) and a ...
The plot of The Crucible takes place in a strict religious community where scientific explanations do not exist. When one of the young girls in the village becomes ill and strangely possessed, the townspeople suspect witchcraft. The elders of the community use their authority to coax confessions of witchcraft out of the girls involved under ...
“She made hail fall on the fields of her enemies, caused their wheat to rot by means of a pestilential fog, and damaged the vineyards with frost. She caused the oxen and sheep of her neighbours to sicken and die for the advantages this might bring to her. For the same motives she caused her ...
Premiering in 1953, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible was a scathing attack on the Communist scare of the era in the guise of a dramatization of the witch hunts that took place in Salem in the 1690s. This play is an important work in American literature and a cornerstone in studying American history as well. This ...
The Crucible is an American classic story that, in the middle of the communist witch hunt in America in the fifties, showed readers that witch hunts can be very dangerous and misleading. The Salem Witch trials depicted a low point in American history in which an entire community unraveled with lies, deceit, and betrayal. The ...
Medieval Europe considered witchcraft to be a very real crime and those convicted of engaging in it, more often than not women, usually suffered the death penalty. Significant peaks in the persecution of witchcraft historically follow periods of serious tension and disarray in society, reflecting society’s inclination to mass hysteria when under pressure. Three major ...
The history of candles goes back thousands of years. They were used to light the way of our ancestors, they were used in rituals, exorcisms and to even find treasures. However, where candles came from is a mystery. One of the earliest mentions of candles in history is in Egypt as early as 3000 BC ...
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