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Samuel Parris: minister at Salem Village

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / In mid-January of 1691/2 two young girls in the household of Samuel Parris, the minister of Salem Village, Massachusetts, began exhibiting strange behavior. "It began in obscurity, with cautious experiments in fortune telling. Books on the subject had 'stolen' into the land; and all over New England, late in 1691, young people were being 'led away with little sorceries.'" The young girls of Salem Village had devised their own creation of a crystal ball using "the white of an egg suspended in a glass" and "in the glass there floated 'a specter in the likeness of a coffin.'"

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:IUPUI/oai:scholarworks.iupui.edu:1805/4601
Date January 2013
CreatorsBaker, Melinda Marie
ContributorsWokeck, Marianne Sophia, Morgan, Anita A., Scarpino, Philip V.
Source SetsIndiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
RightsAttribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/

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