HST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Abigail Hobbs, Puritans, Tituba
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How it began: slave tituba in parris" kitchen 1692 supernatural feeling with fortune. Girls are pressed to name names: tituba, sarah good and sarah osbourne (unpopular women) Both sarahs arrested, tituba confessed saying there were more people involved and was threatened to perform the acts. Evidence: voodoo dolls, pins, physical signs of devil allegiance. Spectral evidence: when you think you see someone as a witch (spirits with likenessed to accused) Relationship between witch"s malice and victims suffering yelled at person, cow died next morning. Had nothing to do with sarah good- accused. George burroughs (whole village turned against him w/ testimonys) Had 3 wives, bewitched first 2 to death, killed his mistress, made abigail hobbs into a witch ann putnam testimony. 2 wives appeared in spirit and said he killed them sheldon. If not, they would be put in dungeon and hanged confess you save your life jacobs. Sept 1692: 20 people executed, 100 in jail (small town of 500)
