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1692: The Salem witch trials’ last hangings
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| September 22, 2014
| Headsman
Posted on 09/22/2020 7:14:07 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat
I went to Salem three times and still never made it to the Nurse home which is closed on weekends for tours.
I went to the top of the hill where they supposedly hung them but outside Walgreens got a very strong feeling looking at the little woods there.j
It’s that little woods where they believe now they were hung.
The Hawthorne has a wonderful Sunday brunch, btw.
But whatever you do avoid going on Halloween, it’s mobbed. Unless you want that Halloween experience. I found it distracting from wanting to get a real look at the place.
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posted on
09/22/2020 7:17:50 AM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: CheshireTheCat
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posted on
09/22/2020 7:33:30 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(I will not comply.)
To: CheshireTheCat
Take heart! Abortion and pretending that homosexuality is normal won’t stand the test of time any more than witch hunts, slavery, and the holocaust.
And they all ultimately failed for the same reason: they go against nature. You may be able to outrun Mother Nature for a while, but Father Time WILL catch up to you.
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posted on
09/22/2020 7:34:53 AM PDT
by
libertylover
(Election 2020: Make America Great Again or Burn it to the Ground. Choose one.)
To: CheshireTheCat
I played John Proctor in my high school’s production of The Crucible.
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posted on
09/22/2020 7:40:53 AM PDT
by
rfreedom4u
(The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
To: CheshireTheCat
Kind of reminds one of Democrats atrocious behavior... Whining and wailing like children.
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posted on
09/22/2020 7:52:05 AM PDT
by
jerod
(Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
To: rfreedom4u
I have Proctor relatives in the family tree... They all came from the Carolina’s to Canada, but they may have ended up there after this fiasco in Salem.
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posted on
09/22/2020 7:53:54 AM PDT
by
jerod
(Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
To: libertylover
Well, witch hunts don’t go against HUMAN nature, that’s for sure.
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posted on
09/22/2020 7:57:38 AM PDT
by
Boogieman
To: CheshireTheCat
The guy who started the Mormon religion had ancestors in Salem. Those ancestors testified against a woman who was then put to death.
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posted on
09/22/2020 8:04:55 AM PDT
by
Trumpet 1
(US Constitution is my guide.)
To: Trumpet 1
Any of ‘em use the name Pierre Delecto?
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posted on
09/22/2020 8:27:14 AM PDT
by
budj
(Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
To: jerod
It would be interesting to dig a little deeper. The vital records for New England are pretty good.
I'm a direct descendant of Rebecca Nurse and a cousin of Samuel Hale. the clergyman who was sent to assist in the prosecution of the cases. He was so disgusted with the path of the proceedings that he resigned and attempted to defend those he felt most wrongfully accused.
Because of his official status in the clergy, he was allowed to remain but mostly ignored. His careful record of the proceedings is why we have such a good knowledge of what went on and why much of the constitution was written the way that it was.
The ban on cruel and unusual punishment was a legacy of Giles Corey being pressed to death, just to give one example.
Rev. Hale's direct descendants include Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale.
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09/22/2020 8:30:04 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: CheshireTheCat
The Squad, Pelosi, Soros, and many other leftists would definitely be hanged as witches today if this practice was still in effect.
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posted on
09/22/2020 8:31:53 AM PDT
by
Boomer
(Leftists/Leftism ruins everything it touches.)
To: CheshireTheCat
Went to Salem Mass when I was working in Boston and studied the incident out of fascination. How could this happen in a Puritan colony? Certainly Willian Bradford and co. would never have sanctioned such a debacle. Here is my interpretation after study...
A grieving mother and some foolish high standing young girls started messing around with necromancy during the extremely long and lonely New England winters (husbands often out on frontier guard against Indian attack.) They used a young servant girl from Barbados named Tituba who could communicate with familiar spirits (demons). Moses and Isaiah warned about this behavior in that Demons deceive and plague people, acting like they are dead relatives on the other side, when actually they are only demonic spirits.
The girls got in contact with the demons and started receiving lies (spectral evidence) about certain people in the town being witches (mostly poor and sickly people). They also began manifesting demonic type possession symptoms (what happens when you mess with demons!), blaming it on the poor and sickly townsfolks!?
Because the girls were from wealthier families in the community, the stupid church and city elders believed the demonized girls rather than the falsely accused people...who often could not go to church because of sickness and poverty.
This is why accusations must be challenged and tested. Where did you hear the accusation? Who told you? The girls should have been reprimanded for their stupidity and not believed! This type of crazy stuff still happens today in spiritual circles (though not resulting in death)...
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posted on
09/22/2020 9:40:56 AM PDT
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: Boomer
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posted on
09/22/2020 9:41:46 AM PDT
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: rfreedom4u
I read once that back when Iraq was liberated, an Iraqi theatre troupe asked the American military commander for permission to stage a play. He was a bit bewildered that they would ask. He understood a little bit better when they said they wanted to do The Crucible.
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posted on
09/22/2020 3:05:57 PM PDT
by
CheshireTheCat
("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
To: Vigilanteman
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posted on
09/22/2020 3:07:08 PM PDT
by
CheshireTheCat
("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
To: Boomer
Actually, I think they are more akin to the so-called witch hunters and we are the poor souls who are wrongly persecuted.
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posted on
09/22/2020 3:08:56 PM PDT
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CheshireTheCat
("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
To: Jan_Sobieski
I had not heard this theory, but it does make some sense.
I have heard about too many people who have claimed their home is haunted by demons and just picked up and left it and many of their belongings in the middle of the night never to return and at large financial loss to not believe in the existence of malevolent spirits.
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posted on
09/22/2020 3:12:57 PM PDT
by
CheshireTheCat
("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
To: CheshireTheCat
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posted on
09/22/2020 5:11:39 PM PDT
by
Boomer
(Leftists/Leftism ruins everything it touches.)
To: Jan_Sobieski
How could this happen in a Puritan colony? Certainly Willian Bradford and co. would never have sanctioned such a debacle. William Bradford was not a Puritan.
The Pilgrims were Separatists who wanted just to be left alone.
The Puritans wanted to clean up the CoE who they regarded as corrupt.
The Puritans were often gentry and even aristocrats.
The Pilgrims were usually Yeoman class.
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posted on
09/22/2020 5:20:45 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
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