... most local communities including Salem town would have reported outbreaks in juvenile. Another reason is that the girls truly could have been bewitched but Ann Putnam later admitted that no evil hand touched them. So either way someone was contradicting someone else. "I have very often been most ... they told her to kill Elizabeth Hubbard, with a knife. Later, at Thomas Putnam's house, the witches tried to slit the throat of twelve-year old Ann Putnam Junior. - Again with a knife (the weapon Medea had used)" (Discovery at Salem). During Tituba's confession she confessed to seeing red rat...

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... most local communities including Salem town would have reported outbreaks in juvenile. Another reason is that the girls truly could have been bewitched but Ann Putnam later admitted that no evil hand touched them. So either way someone was contradicting someone else. "I have very often been most ... they told her to kill Elizabeth Hubbard, with a knife. Later, at Thomas Putnam's house, the witches tried to slit the throat of twelve-year old Ann Putnam Junior. - Again with a knife (the weapon Medea had used)" (Discovery at Salem). During Tituba's confession she confessed to seeing red rat...

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... -law from being elected to the office of minister. He uses the witch trials to increase his own wealth by accusing people of witchcraft and then buying up their land. Ann Putnam Thomas Putnam's wife. Ann Putnam has given birth to eight children, but only Ruth Putnam survived. The other seven died before they were a day old, and ... Ann is convinced that they were murdered by supernatural means. Ruth Putnam The Putnams' lone surviving child out of eight. Like Betty Parris, Ruth falls into a strange stupor after Reverend Parris ... of people like Proctor who question his authority. The w...

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... to pay off her prison bill (Hill, 303). A lot of the information about the afflicted girls is scarce, but there is a little information on two of them, Abigail Williams and Ann Putnam. Abigail wasn't liked very much by the community even before the trials began. She was a troublemaker characterized as mean spirited. Many people blamed her for starting the fortune telling ... from an undiagnosed mental disorder. That could be why she acted out instead of marrying to escape unscathed, like many of the other girls who were accusers did (Kallen, 83). Ann Putnam lived a hard life. A few year...

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... to pay off her prison bill (Hill, 303). A lot of the information about the afflicted girls is scarce, but there is a little information on two of them, Abigail Williams and Ann Putnam. Abigail wasn"t liked very much by the community even before the trials began. She was a troublemaker characterized as mean spirited. Many people blamed her for starting the fortune telling ... from an undiagnosed mental disorder. That could be why she acted out instead of marrying to escape unscathed, like many of the other girls who were accusers did (Kallen, 83). Ann Putnam lived a hard life. A few year...

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... 't the first time that Parris and Proctor have come into conflict. This new contention is only further fueled by the accusations of witchcraft spilling from the lips of Thomas and Ann Putnam and the girls. The enmity of Parris and Proctor comes up again in Act III when Proctor arrives in the court to try and free his wife and the ... . Miller's stage direction on page 12 describes him as "hard-handed."" There is no mercy for his debtors or those he views as an enemy.  Furthermore, he and his wife, Ann Putnam, immediately leap to witchcraft as the source of their troubles. His only daught...

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... witches who were bringing such horrible events to their village. The children still were not able to come up with names for their perpetrators until a little thirteen-year-old girl, Ann Putnam, cried out the name of Martha Corey. Corey, like Osborne, was not poor at all. While she was being tried, Martha Corey had the audacity to laugh at questions ... labeled herself as a "Gospel-woman." Her presence and attitude during the trial led many to believe that she was in fact guilty of practicing witchcraft. From this point on, after Ann Putnam's accusation, the females of Salem showed no he...

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... witches who were bringing such horrible events to their village. The children still were not able to come up with names for their perpetrators until a little thirteen-year-old girl, Ann Putnam, cried out the name of Martha Corey. Corey, like Osborne, was not poor at all. While she was being tried, Martha Corey had the audacity to laugh at questions ... labeled herself as a "Gospel-woman." Her presence and attitude during the trial led many to believe that she was in fact guilty of practicing witchcraft. From this point on, after Ann Putnam's accusation, the females of Salem showed no he...

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... and gothic writing.56 His four major novels, Wieland or The Transformation, Arthur Mervyn, Ormond, and Edgar Huntly, are deeply influenced by early English Gothic writers such as Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, and Mary Shelley.57 Wieland, or The Transformation, for example, is about the Wieland family and all of the paranormal events that happen to them. Next is "Rip Van ... ...

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