Witchcraft in Salem Village in 1692: Together with a Review of the Opinions of Modern Writers and Psychologists in Regard to Outbreak of the Evil in AmericaSalem Press Company, 1916 - 273 páginas |
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Página 30 - Blackstone, the great expounder of English law, wrote: " To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament
Página 90 - minister of the First Church in Salem, turned toward the bodies of the victims and said : " What a sad thing it is to see eight firebrands of hell hanging there." Hutchinson says, •' Those who were condemned and were not executed, I suppose all confessed their guilt. I have seen the confessions of several of them.
Página 33 - is certain. Most of the indictments closed <• in these words — which would have been the form, probably, under English law direct, or colonial law approved by the king — " against the peace • of our sovereign Lord and Lady, the king and queen, their crown and dignity, and against the form of the statute in
Página 30 - and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its time, borne testimony either by example, seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil
Página 35 - or take up any dead man, woman or child, out of his, her or their grave, or any other place •where the dead body resteth, or the skin, bone or any other part of any dead person, to be employed or used
Página 85 - judge that, in the prosecution of these and all such witchcrafts there is need of a very critical and exquisite caution, lest by too much credulity for things received only upon the devil's authority, there be a door opened for a long train of miserable consequences, and Satan get an advantage over
Página 86 - Nevertheless, we cannot but humbly recommend unto the government, the speedy and vigorous prosecutions of such as have rendered themselves obnoxious, according to the directions given in the laws of God and the wholesome statutes of the English nation for the detection of witchcrafts.
Página 86 - esteem alterations made in the sufferers, by a look or touch of the accused, to be an infallible evidence of guilt, but frequently liable to be abused by the devil's legerdemain. We know not whether some remarkable affronts given the devils, by our disbelieving these testimonies whose whole force and
Página 269 - produced the same effect as the touch of the witch did in court Whereupon the gentlemen returned, openly protesting, that they did believe the whole transaction of this business was a mere imposture.' This put the court and all persons into a stand. But at length Mr. Pacy
Página 86 - condemned as guilty of witchcrafts, ought certainly to be more considerable than barely the accused persons being represented by a spectre unto the afflicted, inasmuch as it is an undoubted and notorious thing, that a demon may by God's permission appear, even to ill purposes, In the shape of an innocent, yea, and a virtuous man. Nor can