Summary Of Robert Calef's More Wonders Of The Invisible World?
The late 1600s bridged a time in the New World where religion was highly valued and superstitions, established from a previous time, ran rampant. Over several centuries ago, from the 1300s-1600s, England was experiencing its own type of witchcraft craze as it went through the process of executing thousands of people for their supposed misdeeds. After putting into place, appealing, reformatting and reenacting various acts all of which, in their own manner, banned supernatural acts and resulted in the death of many, England had finally seemed to move past this elongated obsession, just in time to pass it onto their fellow Englishmen in the New World. Due to the past exposures of hysteria and the already traumatic events occurring in the area,
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Tituba description of how Reverend Parris extracted her confession is depicted in Robert Calef’s book, More Wonders of the Invisible World, and proceeds as follows, “…her master did beat her … to make her confess and accuse (such as he called) her sister witches, and that whatsoever said by way of confessing or accusing others was the effect of such usage; her master refused to pay her [prison] fees, unless she would stand to what she had said.” It was with this coerced confession, a confession that would hold no ground in a modern legal system, that the case was made against an easy scapegoat, …show more content…
In addition, Sarah Good, a social pariah in the small village of Salem, well-known for her eccentric behavior, was also accused of being a witch on the claims from neighbors that the family had stayed with during hard times, that when the Goods’ had left, their livestock would sicken to the point of death. They chalked this up to Good bewitching their livestock, but these weren’t the only claims brought against her. A number of families also claimed that she could make objects disappear into thin air. When questioned on this topic, Good came across as tight-lipped and aggressive in her answers to the villagers and her fellow Puritans, further imbedding the already present belief that Good herself was a witch and resulted in her arrest, alongside
Tituba description of how Reverend Parris extracted her confession is depicted in Robert Calef’s book, More Wonders of the Invisible World, and proceeds as follows, “…her master did beat her … to make her confess and accuse (such as he called) her sister witches, and that whatsoever said by way of confessing or accusing others was the effect of such usage; her master refused to pay her [prison] fees, unless she would stand to what she had said.” It was with this coerced confession, a confession that would hold no ground in a modern legal system, that the case was made against an easy scapegoat, …show more content…
In addition, Sarah Good, a social pariah in the small village of Salem, well-known for her eccentric behavior, was also accused of being a witch on the claims from neighbors that the family had stayed with during hard times, that when the Goods’ had left, their livestock would sicken to the point of death. They chalked this up to Good bewitching their livestock, but these weren’t the only claims brought against her. A number of families also claimed that she could make objects disappear into thin air. When questioned on this topic, Good came across as tight-lipped and aggressive in her answers to the villagers and her fellow Puritans, further imbedding the already present belief that Good herself was a witch and resulted in her arrest, alongside