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Oct 29, 2021 · History. Pennsylvania. Before Salem, Pennsylvania’s first and only witch trial involved a Delco woman. Nine years before the Salem witch trials, the first and only people to stand trial for witchcraft in Pennsylvania were two women from present-day Delaware County. By. Kenny Cooper. October 29, 2021. Listen 4:55.
- Kenny Cooper
Nine years later, the Salem, Massachusetts colony would enter into a full blown hysteria over witchcraft. There was every chance the same could have happened in Pennsylvania. But William Penn...
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- What Caused The Salem Witch Trials?: Context & Origins
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- Salem Witch Trials: Conclusion and Legacy
Belief in the supernatural—and specifically in the devil’s practice of giving certain humans (witches) the power to harm others in return for their loyalty—had emerged in Europe as early as the 14th century, and was widespread in colonial New England. In addition, the harsh realities of life in the rural Puritan community of Salem Village (present-...
The three accused witches were brought before the magistrates Jonathan Corwin and John Hathorne and questioned, even as their accusers appeared in the courtroom in a grand display of spasms, contortions, screaming and writhing. Though Good and Osborn denied their guilt, Tituba confessed. Likely seeking to save herself from certain conviction by act...
Though the respected minister Cotton Mather had warned of the dubious value of spectral evidence (or testimony about dreams and visions), his concerns went largely unheeded during the Salem witch trials. Increase Mather, president of Harvard College (and Cotton’s father) later joined his son in urging that the standards of evidence for witchcraft m...
Sep 26, 2023 · Explore five factors that fueled unease and panic over accusations of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials. By: Elizabeth Yuko. Published: September 26, 2023. copy page link.
- Elizabeth Yuko
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Oct 30, 2021 · Nine years before the infamous Salem Witch Trials took place, a Delaware County woman faced her own witch trial in Philadelphia, writes Kenny Cooper for WHYY. It was Pennsylvania’s only witch trial. Known as “The Witch of Ridley Creek,” the “witch” in question was a Swedish settler named Margaret Mattson.
Three women were taken into custody on March 1. Sarah Good, a beggar and mother, Sarah Osborne, a woman who hadn’t attended church in some time, and Tituba, Parris’s Indian slave, were all charged with witchcraft. Tituba confessed and identified more witches from Salem.
Mar 11, 2022 · Thus began the Salem witch hunt, one of the stranger episodes in American history. By its close, 10 girls and young women claimed to be afflicted by witchcraft, resulting in the deaths of 20 people, one of whom was accidentally killed during torture.
