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	Connecticut's Heritage Gateway
		Belief in witchcraft, or the power of evil, was common in seventeenth-century New England, as elsewhere in the western world.
		Witchcraft was a capital crime defined as "giving entertainment to Satan." Not counting the Salem trials, ninety-three complaints for witchcraft were made in New England between 1638 and 1697, forty-three in Connecticut and fifty in much more heavily-populated Massachusetts.
		Eight were brought to trial, and three were condemned to death—Rebecca Goldsmith and her husband John Goldsmith of Hartford and Mary Barnes of Farmington.
	www.ctheritage.org /encyclopedia/ctto1763/witchcraft.htm (371 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Witchcraft
		Supposing that the belief in witchcraft were an idle superstition, it would be strange that the suggestion should nowhere be made that the evil of these practices only lay in the pretending to the possession of powers which did not really exist.
		In a witch trial on a large scale carried on at Toulouse in 1334, out of sixty-three persons accused of offences of this kind, eight were handed over to the secular arm to be burned and the rest were imprisoned either for life or for a long term of years.
		The last trial for witchcraft in Germany was in 1749 at Würzburg, but in Switzerland a girl was executed for this offence in the Protestant Canton of Glarus in 1783.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15674a.htm (3385 words)

	Witchcraft Resource Page - whitchcraft
		For this reason, "witchcraft" practices are typically forbidden by law where belief in them exists (as well as being hated and feared by the general populace) while "folk magic" is tolerated or even accepted wholesale by the people, even if the orthodox establishment objects to it.
		If a man has laid a charge of witchcraft and has not justified it, he upon whom the witchcraft is laid shall go to the holy river; he shall plunge into the holy river and if the holy river overcome him, he who accused him shall take to himself his house.
		Supposing that the belief in witchcraft were held to be an idle superstition, it would be strange that the suggestion free wichcraft spells should nowhere be made that the evil of these practices only lay in the pretending to the possession of powers which did not really exist.
	www.governpub.com /gt/Witchcraft.html (3399 words)

	LOCAL WITCH TRIAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A witchcraft trial was one held in the Allegheny Valley.
		The crowd at the trial clamored for the death of the trembling woman.
		It was said that he wrote a report of the trial, the first and perhaps only case of witchcraft to come to trial in Western Pennsylvania.
	www.akvhs.org /local_witch_trial.htm (243 words)

	Witchcraft and Quakerism - Chapter 4
		E have seen that Massachusetts, very early in her career, made a witchcraft law; the Plymouth Colony declared against witches in 1636, discriminating, in 1671, with great care against the confusion of real cases, with those of the Indian wizards, who remained undisturbed in their rites.
		Rhode Island never had a witchcraft trial, although she made the usual tribute to the age by giving the subject place on her statute books.
		New Hampshire had a few cases of witchcraft; the earliest, in 1656, was that of Jane Welford, who, when brought before the special court of Dover and Portsmouth, was allowed to go on her good behavior.
	www.strecorsoc.org /gummere/ch04.html (1404 words)

	JURIST – The Salem Witchcraft Trials
		One of the judges, Nathaniel Saltonstall, aghast at the conduct of the trial, resigned from the court.
		His wife Elizabeth, who was also convicted of witchcraft, was spared execution because of her pregnancy (reprieved "for the belly").
		Seeing the futility of a trial and hoping that by avoiding a conviction his farm, that would otherwise go the state, might go to his two sons-in-law, Corey refused to stand for trial.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /famoustrials/salem.php (2905 words)

	LSU Law Library--Witchcraft and the Law
		Accusations of witchcraft and the resulting witchcraft hysteria meant persecution, prosecution and usually, the death of the person accused.
		The recognition that evidentiary standards were biased against the defendants in a witchcraft trial emerged with more tolerance for minority beliefs and an increasing respect for the scientific method.
		Trials (Witchcraft) (subdivided by jurisdiction, as Trials (Witchcraft)--Germany)
	faculty.law.lsu.edu /ccorcos/biblio/witch.htm (1162 words)

	Salem Witchcraft: the Events and Causes of the Salem Witch Trials
		Thus, witchcraft was considered a sin because it denied God’s superiority, and a crime because the witch could call up the Devil in his/her shape to perform cruel acts against others.
		Unlike Bridget Bishop’s trial, spectral evidence was a key in the conviction of four of the five accused.
		The fury of the witch trials subsided, and the last witch trial was held in January 1693.
	www.salemwitchtrials.com /salemwitchcraft.html (4355 words)

	Excerpts from "Entertaining Satan : Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A trial for witchcraft was invariably a powerful event, a moment of intense drama in the lives of all those who supported the proceedings, or sought desperately to defend against them, or merely stood by and watched.
		Witchcraft was a capital crime in Massachusetts Bay, and a judgment of guilt invariably brought the death sentence.
		As in her previous trial for witchcraft, the prosecution mounted a large body of testimony against Eunice Cole.
	www.hampton.lib.nh.us /hampton/biog/goodydemos.htm (13841 words)

	About the Witchcraft Collection
		Due to the foresight of White and Burr, the Witchcraft Collection is a rich source for students and scholars of the history of superstition and witchcraft persecution in Europe.
		The most important materials in the Witchcraft collection, however, are the court records of the trials of witches, including harrowing original manuscript depositions taken from the victims in the torture chamber.
		Perhaps the most significant of all manuscripts in the Witchcraft collection is the minutes of the witchcraft trial of Dietrich Flade, a sixteenth-century city judge and rector who spoke out against the cruelty and injustice of the persecutions in the 1580s.
	historical.library.cornell.edu /witchcraft/about.html (536 words)

	A Sample Case: The Trial at Bury St. Edmunds
		Though the trial occurred at Bury St. Edmunds, the events leading up to it occurred in Lowestoft, an isolated fishing town with a population of about fifteen hundred one hundred and twelve miles northeast of London and fifty miles east of Bury St. Edmunds.
		At the time of the trial, Lowestoft was involved with a lawsuit against the larger fishing town of Great Yarmouth over fishing rights, which involved two principal members of the witchcraft trial, Samuel Pacy and Sir Matthew Hale.
		Like many witchcraft trials, the incident that initiated the trial at Bury St. Edmunds transpired when a reasonably prosperous member of the community denied a request from a poorer one.
	members.tripod.com /mythofdesire/possession/id18.htm (2596 words)

	Witchcraft Trial of 1851
		The trial was, in form, the converse of those with which old jurisprudence was familiar.
		Thus all the notes of a bad affair of witchcraft are attested in a modern trial, under the third Empire.
		At the trial of Bridget Bishop, in the court of Oyer and Terminer, held at Salem, June 2, 1692, there was testimony brought in that a man striking once at the place where a bewitched person said the shape of Mrs.
	www.worldspirituality.org /witchcraft-trial.html (2410 words)

	JURIST - The Salem Witchcraft Trials
		Talk of witchcraft increased when other of Betty's playmates, including eleven-year-old Ann Putnam, seventeen-year-old Mercy Lewis, and Mary Walcott, began to exhibit similar unusual behavior.
		The first three to be accused of witchcraft were Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborn.
		Such was the fate of octogenarian Giles Corey who, after spending five months in chains in a Salem jail with his also accused wife, had nothing but contempt for the proceedings.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /trials7.htm (2926 words)

	English Witch Trials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		During this trial, a woman was burned to death for the murder of her husband.
		During 1589, a trial was held for nine women and one man. The end result produced the death of three women, who were hung only two hours after the verdict came in.
		Salmesbury: The trial of three women was held, including the claims of one woman eating the flesh of a child.
	www.unexplainable.net /artman/publish/printer_3040.shtml (574 words)

	Salem Witch Trials
		Although the accusations of witchcraft at Salem described by Cotton Mather in The Wonders of the Invisible World have become the most notorious example of the hysteria about witches, the events of 1692-1693 were neither the first nor the only instances of such accusations in New England.
		A previous outbreak of witchcraft hysteria had occurred thirty years earlier in Hartford, Connecticut, during which thirteen people were accused of witchcraft, four of whom were duly convicted and executed.
		The true end to the trials of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, however, came on October 3, 1692 when Increase Mather, father of Cotton Mather, preached a sermon that was soon published as Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men.
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/witch.htm (980 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Deception, Witchcraft, Murder and the King of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The trial was a dramatic affair, with Anne running through her repertoire of fits and symptoms, lying prostrate on the courtroom floor.
		In 1606, father and daughter went on trial for false accusations of witchcraft before the infamous Star Chamber; regrettably, the disposition of the case is unknown.
		He looks at witchcraft as a social, political and economic phenomenon by bringing to the surface all the factors which seemed to have pushed people to accuse fellow citizens of witchcraft or demonic possession.
	www.amazon.ca /Bewitching-Anne-Gunter-Deception-Witchcraft/dp/0415926912 (2717 words)

	Guide to the Witchcraft Collection,1487-1935
		Documents, broadsides, letters, and other manuscripts concerning witchcraft and witchcraft trials in Europe, mainly in Germany, from the late medieval through the early modern period, with a few documents from New England.
		Includes records of witchcraft trial proceedings; confessions of the accused; documents ordering or confirming the torture, sentencing, and banishment or execution of the accused; treatises on demoniac possession, witchcraft, apparitions, and the occult; and sermons on witchcraft.
		Trial records include those for the trial of Dr. Dietrich Flade, a city judge and one of the highest-ranking victims of the persecutions; and those for the trial of Sister Maria Renata Sänger, subprioress of a convent, executed for witchcraft as late as 1749.
	rmc.library.cornell.edu /EAD/htmldocs/RMM04620.html (283 words)

	Witchcraft Trial Documents
		Below are accounts of the trial of a woman for witchcraft in Salem in 1692, and the response of ministers to the suspected consequences from acts of witchcraft in Boston in 1688.
		The Trial of Susanna Martin, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, June 29, 1692.
		And now, as well as in the other Trials, there was an extraordinary endeavour by Witchcrafts, with Cruel and Frequent Fits, to hinder the poor sufferers from giving in their complaints; which the Court was forced with much patience to obtain, by much waiting and watching for it.
	www.swarthmore.edu /SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/35-wit.html (2251 words)

	Salem Witch Trials FAQs
		The first trial for witchcraft under the Court of Oyer and Terminer was May 27, 1692.
		The last witch trials were held in January 1693, and in May of the same year Gov. Phips pardoned the remaining accused.
		With public confidence in the trials slipping, the cries of the afflicted were steadily ignored, and the accusations eventually stopped.
	www.salemwitchtrials.com /faqs.html (834 words)

	Vehement Suspicion: Eunice Cole of Hampton (1656-1680) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Eunice was charged again with witchcraft in 1673; the court criticized her, though the formal verdict was innocence.
		Her third court hearing on charges of witchcraft occurred in 1680; though not indicted, she was put in prison.
		In answer to the petition of Eunice Cole, it is ordered, that she may have her liberty upon her security to depart from and abide out or this jurisdiction, according to the former favor of this court.
	www.hampton.lib.nh.us /hampton/biog/hall.htm (1868 words)

	witchcraft
		Documents shed new light on witchcraft trials (Mary Beth Norton Research)
		The Trial of the Bideford Witches (the last witches to be executed in England)
		The Repentance of a Salem Witchcraft Accuser, Ann Putnam (1706)
	www.geocities.com /dianalaulainen/witchcraft/witch.html (111 words)

	GEORGE JACOBS FAMILY HOMEPAGE
		Tituba was tried for witchcraft and her witchcraft trial led to the accusations of others as being witches.
		Anyone accused of witchcraft was put in chains until their trial, sometimes for months.
		When the trial began, if the accused were unable to offer plausible explanations, including being led to the Devil by another, they were hanged.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/georgejacobs/georgejacobs.html (772 words)

	Eng 414W
		Testimony implying some form of supernatural strength was also present when Mary Walcott claimed that George threatened to kill her so that she could not be a witness against him (73).
		ten years before the witchcraft trials, he had a poor relationship with several members of the community, such as John Putnam who claimed Burroughs owed him money (177).
		In conclusion, the trials of men and women suggests that while they were not conducted exactly the same, we do see a similarity because both man and woman were vulnerable to accusations due to their deviance.
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~bross/414_Trial_example_1.htm (1140 words)

	17th Century : Witchcraft, Page 1,17th Century,Wicca,Witches,17th Century ...
		The Witchcraft Project -Witchcraft images, Joan of Arc, Mental illness and witchcraft, Maps of executions, Torture, Canon Law and Gratian, Pope John XXII "Magic and The Inquisition," Bamberg Trials, George Lincoln Burr, Joseph Glanvill and Henry More.
		Many of the accused were women, prompting some recent historians to suggest that charges of witchcraft were a way of controlling women who threatened the existing economic and social order.
		In 1692 the famous Salem, Massachusetts, witchcraft trials took place, and that summer hundreds of people in the colony were arrested.
	www.17thcenturynet.net /17.witchcrafts.page.1.html (1068 words)

	The Witch Trial at Mount Holly
		The two people were to be tested to determine whether the charge of witchcraft was true.
		Belief in witchcraft was still very much alive at that time in colonial society.
		The famous Salem witch trials had occurred less than forty years earlier, in 1692.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /witchtrial.html (498 words)

	Kepler's Witch : An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		SHORT DESCRIPTION: Set against the backdrop of the witchcraft trial of his mother, this fascinating biography of Johannes Kepler, "the Protestant Galileo" and 16th-century mathematician and astronomer, reveals the surprisingly spiritual nature of the quest of early...
		The doorway into Kepler's life and times begins with the sensational witchcraft trial of his elderly mother, Katharina, an eccentric woman who, like Kepler, was too smart for the world she lived in.
		Using never-before translated transcripts of the trial, Connor explains that witches in the seventeenth century were the terrorists of their day.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0060522550.html (1859 words)

	Salem Witch Trials \| 1692 Witchcraft Trials in Salem, Massachusetts \| Questia.com Online Library
		To this little...The Mathers, father and son, and the Salem witchcraft mania are recurrent...
		The trials began at the...of being the witch.
		Cotton Mather...seven of the trials at Salem, compares the...though the...
	www.questia.com /library/history/united-states-history/17th-century-u.s.-history/salem-witch-trials.jsp (621 words)

	Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America
		She had been accused of witchcraft in Oyster Bay, and sent to Massachusetts for trail; Convicted of being Quaker and banished.
		Technically not a Witchcraft Trial, but rather an accused witch bringing suit against four people for slandering her.
		The "Ipswich Witchcraft Case", both plantif and defendant were students of Mary Baker Eddy.
	www.personal.utulsa.edu /~marc-carlson/witchtrial/na.html (3809 words)

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