Devil In Massachusetts
"I will tell I will tell," she cried. "Thou wicked creature, it is you that stopped my mouth...oh Betty Procter, it is she. It is she that I lived with last... it is she that I lived with last, thou witch. Hast thou undone me body and soul?" This is just an insight to The Devil in Massachusetts by Marion L. Starkey. The Devil in Massachusetts is a modern inquiry into the Salem Witch Trials. Religion has always been a huge issue in the great United States. In the middle of January of 1692 two little girls would change the insight and all around feelings on many things, but the most major change of feelings would be on religion. I will soon begin telling you who all of this really got started. Two young girls; Abigail Williams and Betty Paris would soon change history. At a very young ages of only nine and eleven, these two girls were showing very much more than other young girls, a lot of carefree innocence. The appearance of children, however may be deceiving, as even adults should know, especially in this time and pl
Soon after people were being accused of being witches. It is and was believed to have all started in the young girls when they both had received a recent epidemic of the smallpox unscathed. Strange things such as ones like this began happening more and more often in Salem. Samuel Parris, Betty's dads black slave) about the great and wonderful powers the girls had thought to be having. One day after being in the story circle little Betty began doing strange things. People soon realized that something very evil had entered the small town of Salem Massachusetts. Strange things such as getting down on all fours barking like a raging dog and kicking her back legs such as a spooked horse would do. Such an absurdity provoked Phips into taking a stand against any further imprisonments, and he forbade anymore executions for witchcraft and speaking with the devil in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts. Because of the governors actions nearly one hundred and fifty (150) men and women that had been chained to prison walls were set free, and many that were accused of witchcraft were pardoned. Although their physical well-being recovered fully it was obvious that their spiritual well being had not fully recovered and the girls spiritual being was in "another world". The girls knew what they were doing and kept on flirting with the devilish enchantments. Though Betty was a really sweet, biddable little girl, ready to obey anyone who spoke with conviction, including to her misfortune her playmate Abigail exposed too, but somehow responding differently, she was not innocent; from the eyes of this young child an authentic hellion looked out on a world it would it would make and even take over if it got a chance. By the end several hundred people in and around Salem were accused of witchcraft or speaking to the devil. Soon more girls, even older ones began expanding and filling the story circle. Anyway the girls went to tell Tituba (Tituba is Rev.
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