Remained the main accusers throughout the trials. They began having unexplained fits in January of 1692 after experimenting with fortune-telling and were diagnosed as being possessed. He was driven out of the village and replaced a few years after the trials ended.Įlizabeth “Betty” Parris (age 9) & Abigail Williams (age 11) - The first of the “afflicted” girls, Samuel’s daughter and niece, respectively. Samuel Parris- Pastor of Salem Village church who often preached about the work of the Devil, and was a driving force behind the accusations. '.I desire to lie in the dust, and earnestly beg forgiveness of God, and from all those unto whom I have given just cause of sorrow and offence, whose relations were taken away or accused.' 'You tax me for a wizard, you may as well tax me for a buzzard. 'You're a liar! I'm no more a witch than you are a wizard! If you take my life away, God will give you blood to drink!' '…it is a shamefull thing that you should mind these folks that are out of their wits.' from a letter by Cotton Mather to John Cotton, August 5, 1692

Immediately upon this, our God miraculously sent in five Andover witches, who made a most ample, surprising, amazing confession of all their villainies, and declared the five newly executed to have been of their company.' Five witches were lately executed, impudently demanding of God a miraculous vindication of their innocency. From the Examination of Mary Black, April 22, 1692 from a letter by Thomas Putnam to John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin, April 21, 1692 'Humbly craving continually your prayers and help in this distressed case, so praying almighty God continually to prepare you, that you may be a terror to evil-doers and a praise to them that do well.' Samuel Parris, sermon notes dated September 11, 1692 “Yea, & in our Land (in this, & some neighboring Places) how many, what Multitudes, of Witches & Wizards has the Devil instigated with utmost violence to attempt the overthrow of Religion?”

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