Posted on 09/22/2020 7:14:07 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
This date in 1692 saw the last executions of the Salem witch trials.
Eight souls hanged from sturdy trees at Gallows Hill on the occasion:
Mary Easty (or Eastey) Alice Parker Mary Parker Ann Pudeator Wilmot Redd Margaret Scott Samuel Wardwell As well as:
Martha Corey, days after her husband Giles was horribly pressed to death for refusing to recognize the court’s legitimacy by lodging any plea This group of mostly older women (and one man who married an older widow) had, like their predecessors over the course of 1692, been the victims of wailing children charging them (with afflicted histrionics to match) as supernatural malevolents — and of the credulity of their neighbors and judges.
The latter was, at least, eroding by this point in time.
Shortly before her execution this day, Mary Easty addressed to the court a dignified petition less for her own life than for the safety of everyone else who might come under her honorable judges’ scrutiny — indicted as it stood by Easty’s own certitude of her innocence....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
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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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.
I played John Proctor in my high school’s production of The Crucible.
Kind of reminds one of Democrats atrocious behavior... Whining and wailing like children.
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.
Well, witch hunts don’t go against HUMAN nature, that’s for sure.
The guy who started the Mormon religion had ancestors in Salem. Those ancestors testified against a woman who was then put to death.
Any of ‘em use the name Pierre Delecto?
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.
The Squad, Pelosi, Soros, and many other leftists would definitely be hanged as witches today if this practice was still in effect.
You are correct!
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.
As it so turns out, today was also the date when Hale was executed.
http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/09/22/1776-nathan-hale-regret-that-i-have-but-one-life/
Actually, I think they are more akin to the so-called witch hunters and we are the poor souls who are wrongly persecuted.
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.
Good point.
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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