... Posey 2 learn the ways of voodoo. As time progressed a lot more girls started participating in the fun. Mary Warren, 20, Mercy Lewis, 19, Elizabeth Hubbard, 19, Mary Walcott, 16, and Ann Putnam Jr., 12, all frequently attended these mystic meetings. One day, at a normal meeting in the woods, Revered Parris wonders on to the girls dancing around a fire. The girls are ... power in the now twisted society. Anyone could accuse anyone and some started using greed and vanity to get what they wanted. The next to be accused was Martha Corey. Ann Putnam Jr. accused Martha of witchcraft towards h...

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... Massachusetts Bay Colony charter to associate witchcraft with God's anger. So, to repel this, they made sure that every last witch be discovered and punished. [Rediscovering America] In following months Ann Putnam accused a church attending Martha Corey of afflicting her due to her outspoken nature and bastard child, both of which derailed ideals of Puritan religion and ways of life. Rebecca ... Nurse was also accused of witchcraft. She was a 71 year old woman who was kind and well liked. Ann Putnam and the other girls spoke of her ghost and how it would "float into their rooms at night...

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... , John Proctor, and John Willard were all hanged on Gallows Hill. In early September, Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Dorcas Hoar, Mary Bradbury, Margaret Scott, Wilmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Abigail Faulkner, Rebecca Eames, Mary Lacy, Ann Foster, and Abigail Hobbs were tried and condemned. On September 19, Giles Corey was killed for refusing a trial, being the only ... last words "More weight." Dorcas Hoar was the first of those pleading innocent to confess. Her execution was delayed. In Mid-September Martha Corey, Margaret Scott, Mary Easty, Alice Pa...

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... the girls dancing in the forest, but she says that the event had nothing to do with witchcraft, and they were only trying to conjure up spirits of Thomas and Ann Putnam's seven dead children in order to find out who is responsible for their deaths - they all died in infancy, and their sister Ruth Putnam was one of the girls ... in the forest with the Abigail and Betty. Thomas and Ann Putnam show up soon after words and tells Reverends Hale and Parris that their daughter, Ruth, is also sick. Mrs. Putnam admits that she sent Ruth to learn, from Tituba ... ...

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... evidence in the past of violence; the girls would not be so scared otherwise. This so far proves that Abigail was the person with the most influence in this play. Ann Putnam is wife to Thomas Putnam and it is her who starts off the idea of Betty being bewitched. She started the accusations, because she believed some one had possessed ... her child. She blamed Tituba because she had helped with her babies. She is jealous of Rebecca the nurse due to the fact she has had many successful births. Ann points out the illness of her child and blames it down to the devils work and she blames Tib...

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... believe in 1692 that the devil was close at hand. Sudden and violent death occupied everyone's minds. Talk of witchcraft increased when other playmates of Betty, including eleven-year-old Ann Putnam, seventeen-year-old Mercy Lewis, and Mary Walcott, began to show similar unusual behavior. When his own ideas failed to effect a cure, William Griggs, a doctor called to examine the ... urine cake made her and even easier target to become a scapegoat for the unexplained. Meanwhile, the number of girls afflicted continued to grow, rising to seven with the addition of Ann Putnam, Elizabeth Hub...

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... , with an Indian war raging less than seventy miles away that the devil was close at hand. Talk of witchcraft increased when other playmates of Betty, including eleven-year-old Ann Putnam, seventeen-year-old Mercy Lewis, and Mary Walcott, began to show signs of similar unusual behavior. When his own nostrums failed to affect a cure, William Griggs, a doctor called to ... belief that witches targeted children made the doctor's diagnosis seem increasing likely. In the meantime, the number of girls afflicted continued to grow, rising to seven with the addition of Ann Putnam, Elizabeth Hubba...

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... is yet another innocent woman that is proclaimed to be a witch in The Crucible. Nurse is accused by neither Abigail Williams nor Mary Warren, but by a middle-aged woman named Ann Putnam. As Rebecca's husband states, she is accused "for the marvelous and supernatural murder of Goody Putnam's babies." (Miller, Crucible 858) Although there is never any proof or evidence, she ... is condemned and hangs for witchcraft. Because Putnam feels threatened by the supernatural world when her infants pass away without reason, Rebecca Nurse becomes the unfortunate target of Ann Putnam's pointing fing...

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... in the nude in the forest with some of the other town girls. Since this, Betty has slept in what seems like a trance. Thomas Putnam, a ruthless landowner, and his wife Ann, arrive with news that their daughter is ill as well. Although Mrs. Putnam is sure that witchcraft is abroad, since Parris" own flesh is involved, he denies any thoughts of ... ...

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... was not the first time she had been charged for witchcraft. In 1680, she had been tried for witchcraft but not convicted. September 22, Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Margaret Scott, Wilmot Reed, Samuel Wardwell and Mary Parker are hanged on Gallows Hill. Mary Herrick of Wenham, Massachusetts reported that the ghost of Mary Easty appeared to her ... ...

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... the witch trials. Bridget Bishop, George Burroughs, Marcha Carrier, Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, George Jacobs, Sr. Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, John Proctor, Ann Pudeator, Wilmott Redd, Margaret Scott, Samuel Wardwell, Sarah Wildes, and John Wilard. Now I will talk about two trials in general about witch trials that had outrageous outcomes and showed how ... ...

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... Nurse. She was wife to Francis Nurse a respected man in the community. Goody Nurse is a pious old woman who has often acted as a midwife for women of the town, including Ann Putnam. She is accused of witchcraft by the girls and convicted of the supernatural murder of the Putnam babies. News of her arrest reveals how out of control the situation ... ...

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... Nurse. She was wife to Francis Nurse a respected man in the community. Goody Nurse is a pious old woman who has often acted as a midwife for women of the town, including Ann Putnam. She is accused of witchcraft by the girls and convicted of the supernatural murder of the Putnam babies. News of her arrest reveals how out of control the situation ... ...

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... her husband, Benjamin, because she found his pigs in her field. In actuality, Benjamin Holton died of a heart attack three years after the pig incident. In further evidence against Nurse, Ann Putnam, Sr., whom we have already established as being unfairly biased, testified before the court. She claimed that apparitions of Goody Nurse came to her and choked her in the ... ...

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... Committed by them upon the bodys of Abigail Williams, and John Indian both of Mr Sam parris his family of Salem Village and mary Walcott daughterof the abovesaid Complainants, And Ann Putnam and Marcy Lewis of the famyly of Thomas Putnam of Salem Village whereby great hurt and dammage hath beene donne to the Bodys of s'd persons above named therefore Craved ... ...

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