May 8, 2024
Las brujas de Salem || Relatos del lado oscuro

Es uno de los juicios por brujería más famosos de la historia, pero, ¿Realmente hubo algo ahí? ¿Alguna bruja realmente estaba en Salem?
Es uno de los juicios por brujería más famosos de la historia, pero, ¿Realmente hubo algo ahí? ¿Alguna bruja realmente estaba en Salem?
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If I say the word Salem to
you, you will most likely immediately come
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to the memory of witches, any
idea of witches, from comic witches to
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the cat of the haunted series and
all sorts of things. But the reality
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is that there are a lot of
stories behind them that are a little hidden.
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It is difficult to know for sure
what happened three hundred and twenty-
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nine years ago. It' s
hard to say. However, the particular
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case of the Salem trials, trials
for witchcraft, is a case that was
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well documented in its time and numerous
writings are preserved. It is one of
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those interesting topics that is worth listening
to again this Halloween night, the night
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of witches, tales of the dark
side, beings, strangers, inexplicable events,
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stories that other minds prefer to ignore. These images that I will begin
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to present correspond to an American city
in the United States, on the east
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coast of Dumpers, in the New
England area. It is a city that
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is currently bustling. It has about
twenty- six zero inhabitants. It'
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s not a city monster, but
it' s a modern active city,
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with many people coming in coming.
There is a port very close, there
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is a lot of fishing in the
area and there are in s rivers.
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So it' s a cheerful,
dynamic city, but with a very strange
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story. Behind three hundred and twenty- nine years ago, let me take
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you back in time. I located
less in one thousand six hundred ninety this
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same region, where today Dunvers is
at that time known as the Villa of
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Salem. It' s not the
same as the people of Salem. The
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village of Sad de Salem is a
little further south and is a metropolis,
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a little larger. They are very
peculiar places because they are people who have
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come from England and settled in this
region. It' s a cold area,
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it' s close to the Atlantic. It' s a very humid
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area, it has a lot of
vegetation, it has a lot of weird
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things at night, there are a
lot of animals. These people come from
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the old continent of England, so
they were used to these populous cities all
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congested, filled with small streets,
stinking and pestilent, and suddenly they are
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here in the middle of these incredibly
dark forests. At a time when there
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is no electric power, at a
time when there are many deeply rooted beliefs.
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Many of these inhabitants of the Villa
de Salem are Puritans. Puritan meant
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that it belonged neither to the Catholic
Church nor to the Anglican Church. Many
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of them could be Calvinists. Jacobinos. It was a general Puritan denomination,
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that is, they were very attached
to beliefs. They did not share the
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idea of the Anglican Church and its
reforms, but neither did the Catholic idea.
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In fact, many of these people
had to flee England because there was
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a time when there was a sort
of puritan revolution that caused so many people
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to be killed, executed, many
stripped, and had to flee and settled
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here. They are governed by a
series of very peculiar, deeply rooted rules.
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For example, the Reverend of the
Villa de Salem, Reverend Parris,
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is a very strict, very rigid, very conservative subject who has this mania
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of accusing people rather than preaching the
love of God. What he does is
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accuse people, call the demon who' s here, who' s there.
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You live in great fear, but
not only do you live in fear
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of the teachings of Reverend Parris,
but you also live in great fear of
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the English themselves. There is a
huge threat that King Charles I, at
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any moment, can command all this
to be razed to divide the land again
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among colonists favorable to the English crown. But there is also another very great
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risk and, for example, it
is the French. A little further north,
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in Canada there are French who are
enemies to the death of the English
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and can come down at any time
and raze the colonies. But it doesn
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' t end there. Native American
tribes are also a formidable adversary, although
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they have been further displaced to the
west. There are still many very violent
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tribes in these regions. So it' s no wonder that some whole family
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who started a journey in a cart
or some mail that came between the communities,
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disappeared to never know what had happened
and to top it off disease at
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some point shortly before, one thousand
six hundred and eighty- seven had been
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an epidemic of a species like Varisela. Of course, there was a lot
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of fear and if you add to
that that the dear Reverend Parris spends it
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giving sermons about the closeness of the
devil to the people of Salem. Well,
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then, we have a very dangerous
cocktail, so dangerous that people live
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in a lot of fear and then
something happens that gets out of the ordinary.
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The Reverend Parris has several members within
his family, among others, he
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has his own niece, Abigail Williams, about eleven years old, and his
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daughter Betty Parris, nine. They
are ultra- conservative little girls with their
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little cap, who talk about nothing
other than the love of God and the
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goodness of the Ministry of Rebvé Parris, of course, in public, because
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in private they are a couple of
rogues. Of the worst, they are
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so naughty that on one occasion they
have set to play the Venus glass game.
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It' s a divination trick to
find out who your husband is going
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to be. Oh, they'
re nine and eleven, but they'
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re already thinking about who their husband
is going to be. And there'
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s a little friend Ann Putnam,
who' s a little older and she
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' s an equally very pretty girl, with her little hat, with her
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little apron dress, who walks very
quietly, never raises her voice, but
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when she' s with the others
in private, she' s the devil
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himself and the talk, of course, always revolves around love and marriage.
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The fact is that this game,
the Venus glass game, is nothing but
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to put water in a clear glass
glass and then open an egg, remove
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the yolk and leave only the clear
that empties into the water. After waiting
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a moment, that assumes a form, an appearance that gives us an indication
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that it is what is coming.
This has been taught to them by Tituba.
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Tituba is the slave who lives with
them in the house of Reverend Parris.
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Tituba is not an Afro- descendant, not a person brought from Africa.
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It was bought in Barbados. In
fact, she is a woman of
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Araucan origin, probably from the Antilles, or perhaps even from some region of
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Venezuela. It' s hard to
know where it' s coming from.
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He speaks very poorly English, probably
because he did not speak even Spanish,
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but spoke a local dialect and was
captured and taken for sale Barbados, because
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he had to learn it to survive
Tituba is very close to the girls and
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usually spend a lot of time with
them inventing stories of amazing magical things.
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She' s not a Christian.
He actually still professes his own beliefs.
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Just like your husband. There was
a custom of buying a slave and buying
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a slave to marry and have offspring. A terrible practice, of course,
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but which at the time was legitimate. The fact is that Tituba spends the
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days with these little girls making up
stories to earn her affection about spells and
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so on. She shows them the
game. That one one time they are
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doing this and suddenly what appears there
causes them a lot of fear, because
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what there is there to say about
dear Abby Williams is a coffin. She
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distinguishes there' s a coffin.
Ann Putnam' s turn shows up a
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figure she interprets as a hat man
and claims she already knows who she is.
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In Betty Parris' case, you
don' t think so. He
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definitely doesn' t have the touch
for this. But when the sarcophagus appears,
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the casket, the three of them
get very frightened to the point where
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the very tituba throws that out and
breaks the glass and asks them not to
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say anything. Please don' t
say anything. She knows that being a
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slave, probably if Reverend Parris finds
out, that she' s been teaching
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them forbidden things and making tricks for
them, things that are silly for her.
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She knows that none of this is
true, but since he' s
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nailed and exotic, he tries to
convince them. The girls keep quiet.
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By January of one thousand six hundred
and ninety- two, Abigail Williams and
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Betty Parris begin to suffer a series
of strange attacks out of nowhere. They
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start screaming franticly saying they see horrible
things. One of them claims there'
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s a huge black bird in front
of her. It' s the bird
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of death that comes for it.
The other one pulls to the ground and
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convulses at the same time as vomiting
and foaming, ensuring that a demon is
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besieging him. The other one doesn' t lose sight that they' re
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nine and eleven years old. The
other claims that an old woman- shaped
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spectrum is pricking him, nailing him
with things, and that it hurts him
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a lot. The point is,
after a moment of being with this,
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they faint. But this begins to
be repeated with a certain frequency to the
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point where Reverend Parris is visibly alarmed
and causes a doctor to come. When
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the doctor arrives, he witnesses one
of these attacks. Watch the girls wallowing
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on the floor, foaming at the
mouth, screaming horribly with their eyes disorbited
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as they point to things. Even
one of them gets to pee in her
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clothes. After listening to them and
checking them carefully with the doctor. He
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confesses that he is concerned. That
has every indication of being a sorcerer'
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s job. The girls are haunted. This is very serious, very serious.
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Who the hell haunted them? That' s the big question. They
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have no way of knowing it,
but the attacks continue day by day and
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become much more intense. At the
same time as this is happening, it
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is known that and Putnam, the
little friend, the one who often comes
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to talk about licentious things, is
also suffering things. He has visions,
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he throws himself on the floor,
he screams, he does very strange things,
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but how to know who has haunted
them. There is a very simple
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solution. A friend of the family
knows how to make a witch cake.
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A witch' s cake is nothing
but a kind of rye bread that is
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prepared by mixing the flour with the
afflicted person' s urine. In this
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case, the three girls who provide
samples to prepare what is placed in an
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oven and then feed a dog.
The general idea is that, from this,
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they would know who or who would
have done that to them. And,
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in fact, very soon, after
a severe attack, they begin to
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say that what they are seeing are
nothing other than Sarah Osbourne and Sarah Wood
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and, of course, the slave. Tito goes, when he goes,
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he hears that good, he faints, he composes himself again, he faints
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again. He knows his days are
numbered. These girls are accusing him of
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witchcraft. Sarah Osbourne and Sara Wood
have no idea what' s going on.
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They' re a couple of old
women who aren' t really much
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appreciated. He' s the kind
of person who wanders the streets, sometimes
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a little drunk, sometimes cursing dirty
stinking with all- loving clothes, tangled
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hair. The girls just charged them
directly. A reverend parris immediately spreads the
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word that the girls have been haunted
by those women. And that' s
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where the real history of error begins. Women are immediately arrested. Sarah Osbourne,
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Sarawud are being interrogated. When she
plays Sarah Osbourne' s turn,
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she just says I have no idea
what they' re talking about. I
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don' t know what you'
re talking about, I don' t
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even know who those people are.
When they insist, she responds again I
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have no idea. I don'
t do witchcraft and then release a series
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of impropernesses against the characters those who
are interrogating. When he plays the turn
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to the next Sara, she responds
in the same way, but in the
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midst of laughter and burps, because
she is good a little drunk, which
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makes her think she is mocking and, therefore, she must be hiding something
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But of course, when Tituba'
s turn comes, this was a woman
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who was not foolish. I knew
I' d only have one chance to
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get out of this alive, one
chance. What would happen if she failed
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is that she would be hung and
the man she was married to, John,
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would also be hung. So,
when it comes to asking her,
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she confesses everything she fully confesses.
You know that, not being a Christian,
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you' re not obliged and you' re not going to hell.
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Their beliefs go further. So without
much modesty, she confesses that she has
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prepared those enchantments and haunted the girls
and haunted other girls and taught them horrible
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things and describes ceremonies and rituals.
When they ask someone else, he'
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s with you already he answers if, of course, and that' s
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where the nightmare begins again, because
he starts pointing people, among others,
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to Rebecca Neers. Rebecca Ners was
a highly respected woman in the Community,
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an old woman of great prestige,
from a family of the founders, and
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points her out directly, but she
also points to other people, among others,
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Brigette Bishop, Anner Pudator and several
others. The judges ask for more
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information, but as it is formed
it is then established, by order of
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the Governor of Massachusetts, a special
court known as the Court of Hearing and
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finishing to hear and determine this.
It was a sort of inquisitorial court,
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although there was no holy inquisition here
because they did not profess the Catholic faith.
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It was kind of an inquisitorial court. It was a group of judges
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with a number of magistrates. The
accuser had no right to defence, simply
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to confess or not to confess,
admit or admit. Depending on this would
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be what would be done to the
defendant. The trials begin very soon and
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the trials become crazy, because the
girls are now adding up, not only
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are the first three, but other
young girls have been incorporated. Elizabeth Wooth,
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Elizabeth Habvard, Mercy Louis, Susana
Sheldon, Mary Walcott, Mary Warren
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add up and each of them brings
something new, one ensures that at night
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Rebecanners has come to her bed and
that she has attacked her horribly and that
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it hurts her and another one ensures
that she is a man and believes to
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recognize him in the figure of one
of the men in the village. All
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this is being added to the fear
that there was already, because, besides,
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during the trial suddenly some of these
girls are declaring against Rebecca, against
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Bishop' s or any of them, suddenly falls to the floor and starts
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screaming and foaming and then. All
the other girls start falling to the floor
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and screaming to the point where many
people prefer to get out of there because
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they' re so scared. Some
remain so static as boards that at some
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point, when they tried to lift
them, they could lift them up at
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the tip and head as if it
were a table of the rigidity they presented
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at other times, they claimed to
be seeing spectra of hell. A man
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in black, another man in a
hat and gradually added up all this as
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he meticulously scored. The accusations were
very severe because, according to English law
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at the time, the proven accusation
of Witchcraft meant death. Unlike some trials
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where people were burned, in the
English case in particular they were not burned,
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they were hanged solely for great treason. The person' s body was
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burned after he had been hanged.
But in the case of Witchcraft it was
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the gallows that these people faced.
The problem is that, as weeks and
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months go by, more and more
accused people do not fit, of course,
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in the small prison of the Villa
de Salem. They can' t
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fit. So they are sent to
Salem, to the people of Salem,
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and to Aish. Others are sent
to Ipswich, and others to Boston,
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where they remain in prisons accused of
witchcraft. Many of them are chained in
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basements and cannot move because, according
to the belief of the time, witches
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and witches could occupy a space to
turn it into a sort of magical cell
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and escape. That is why they
were chained in these conditions. Many people
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died within the prisons themselves. They
didn' t even have to be prosecuted.
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They died there because of illness,
because of cold. It was in
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winter. When it passed from winter
to spring and then summer came. The
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rains, the humidity that I ended
with many people and the trials continued with
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an impressive astonishment, because there were
also more than 200 accused. The vast
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majority of them are from Salem Village, Salem Village, which is now known
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as Dumbers. But they weren'
t all from there. There were people
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who weren' t even from there. Moreover, one of the strangest cases
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that came up during the trial was
the accusation against Captain John Alden Jr,
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descendant of the first settlers who arrived
in the Mayflower. Captain Alden Junior was
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passing by, he was walking,
he wasn' t even going to stay,
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he was only walking with two or
three of his juniors, when a
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boy in the middle of the street
started screaming, saying to that man he
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' s a sorcerer and that was
enough for him to be arrested, sent
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to the dungeon and tried him for
his good fortune and, of course,
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being a military man and a highly
appreciated man, a large group of his
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men arrived, broke the prison and
threw him out along with two or three
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others didn' t act, but
the people of Alden intended to end this
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and kill those people. He didn' t allow it. The trials were
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followed and suddenly when Rebeccan Neerse'
s turn came. Many people in the
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village refused to do this, accusing
Reverend Parris of all this being a farce,
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a real farce that made no sense. Rebeccanners was one of the most
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respected women in the whole town,
but she was a very wealthy woman.
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That' s clear. She was
still charged and brought to trial. The
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ns family. Rebecca Ners had had
numerous frictions with the Putnams over land.
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In Bridget Bishop' s case.
This woman was a woman who wasn'
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t Puritan, she was more of
a party girl, a little drunk.
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I' d had several marriages,
used to be rude, and I didn
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' t go to Reverend Parris'
sermons. He had some money, certainly,
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but his main problem is that she
was at odds with this man.
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The other person and pudator ambe Dator
was a very wealthy widow who had always
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been badly seen. She was a
folkloric woman, she loved the showy dresses
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and she had married a very peculiar
character. You see, she was a
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midwife and healer one day she was
called to the Villa de Salem to take
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care of a woman who was sick, named Claudia. For some time she
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took care of this woman until the
woman, who was a stubborn alcoholic,
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probably died of the same evil of
alcoholism. After the death of that publisher
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' s anus, he married Jacob
the widower. The problem is that he
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was twenty years younger handsome and very
wealthy, which immediately generated an aura of
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mystery and accusations of witchcraft. This
woman had bewitched Jacob and that' s
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why she married him And to the
full of evils, the good Jacob dies
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very soon and, therefore, now
the accusation is that he not only bewitched
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him to stay with him, but
to kill him. And all this adds
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up to the accusations of one of
the scuinclas which points to her floating over
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her bed. Of course, there
were also those who accused them of having
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seen them flying in a broom.
Even if you don' t believe it.
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Another accused person was Alice Parker Parker, a particularly grumpy woman, much
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given to cursing, much given to
throwing things at others. He never had
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children. So he was a particularly
bitter person. He lived a little isolated
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from the community. He didn'
t used to take it, he was
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an easy object to attack. But
she also owned some kind of big estate.
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A person accused of witchcraft had no
right to inherit property from his offspring.
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But in the case of Alice,
there were also no descendants. Therefore,
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the properties would be owned by the
village of Salem itself and could be
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managed by Reverend Parris. But,
of course, all this is speculation,
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because at that time and in front
of the judge and in front of the
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court to hear and determine these were
terrible witches and they were accused. The
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fact is that the first one to
be executed was Bridget Bishop. On June
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10th, one thousand six hundred and
ninety- two was taken to a site
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known as gallow Hill, today known
as Proctor Letze, and on this site
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a gallows were set up and hung. During the following days, a wave
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of people were hung right there,
at least eight, just in three days,
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when the protests were growing, led
by the Proctor family, John Proctor,
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William Proctor. They all protest against
this. It is, moreover,
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desirable that am Putnam ensure that during
the night, John Proctor has come to
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visit her in spirit form and that
he is a sorcerer. Another of the
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girls claims that John Proctor has been
some kind of ghostly lover during the nights
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John Proctor is married to Elizabeth and
will have the first baby in his family.
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She is waiting to drink, but
she is also accused of sorcery came
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to a point where the entire Proctor
family is arrested and brought to trial.
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The rest of the villagers, the
people of the Villa de Salem are very
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afraid. There are people who no
longer dare to say anything, but the
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proctors continue to fight and write letters, accusing Reverend Parris, accusing this false
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trial and all the lies being told
there. By now, the number of
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people executed continues to grow. There
is one particular case that would otherwise be
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dramatic, the Gills Corey case.
Corey owned one of the best lands in
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the whole region when he was surprisingly
accused of witchcraft this man was very fond
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of the church. He was a
member of the church, part of the
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church and was accused of witchcraft,
arrested and asked to admit guilt. He
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flatly refused. Then came the torture. The common practice for obtaining a confession
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in these cases was to crush him, place him face down naked on the
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floor with a heavy board on top
and go placing stones until he could no
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longer and confess. Gills Corey never
confessed. He died. He died crushed,
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he died suffocated by the weight they
had put on him For three days
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he was resisting until he died.
The letters that were sent by the proctors
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were heard, but it would not
be until well into September, almost at
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the end that I opened an answer
for that moment. People like rebeccaners like
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John Proctor, they were dead.
They had been hanged in a total of
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twenty people were hanged. Gills Corey
was killed by crushing and at least ten
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more died in the basements, where
they were locked up for disease without cold
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anion whatever it was. At the
end of September of one thousand and six
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hundred and ninety- two, a
court in Boston ordered the immediate suspension of
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all this. It was also cancelled
that evidence could be taken as evidence of
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the testimonies of persons allegedly affected,
that is, the testimonies of the girls,
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those shouting and kicking. It was
determined that the court had acted badly
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and during the following years various records
would be issued offering apologies for this.
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However, none of the accusers would
be prosecuted. The only one who would
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see any guilt would be the Reverend
Parris, who by one thousand six hundred
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and ninety- seven, about four
years after the last executions, would be
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expelled from the Church of the Villa
de Salem and would fall misfortune. The
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rest would not be charged as such, but neither would I make any apology.
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They wouldn' t offer an apology, they wouldn' t confess to
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feeling sorry, they wouldn' t
recognize having invented all this. The only
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person who ever apologized for that was
and Putnam. What happened to everyone.
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Well, that' s part of
the story that also gets very interesting,
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and you' ll see why it' s interesting Tituba the slave after confessing
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was arrested along with the man who
had been married. Both remained in prison,
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as Reverend Parris refused to pay the
costs of the trial and therefore could
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not be released. Having accepted the
guilt and having denounced their accomplices, they
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could be released. The cause is
not that they were left as free slaves.
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They would no longer be slaves,
but when Parris refused, they could
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not leave prison until someone bought them. The price paid for them was the
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same as the costs of the trial
and were delivered. From that point on,
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we don' t even know what
became of them. They' ll
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probably have remained slaves on some plantation
or somewhere until their death. As for
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the alleged victims. Betty Parris.
Betty Parris, the daughter of Reverend Parris,
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would die in a thousand seven hundred
and sixty after a long and fruitful
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life, when she played the Venus
glass game. Nothing appeared to her.
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As for Bigail Williams, Abby Williams
wouldn' t even finish seeing the trials.
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Shortly after the trials began, she
disappeared completely and no news of her
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was heard again. It is believed
that Reverend Barris would have sent her home
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or taken her away from there.
All we know is that he died when
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he was seventeen, very shortly after
the trials. Abby Williams died just as
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she had seen him in the passage
of Venus, as she had seen in
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that image. As for dear Ann
Putnam. This woman would be the cause
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of sixty- two accusations. He
accused half the town. She was the
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promoter of many of these people that
these people were executed at the end of
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the trials. It remains in the
Villa de Salem, but in a very
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strange way. His parents die almost
immediately after the trials. Both die at
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the same time and as the eldest
daughter of the family, she would have
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to take care of the brothers to
raise them and never marry. Why do
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you know anything about her? One
of the sons of the Proctor family was
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the man who had seen in the
vessel of Venus, only that man had
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been hanged. She never met Man, never was married, never had children.
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She died alone without anyone knowing the
moment she died. As for Mercy
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Lewis, one of the girls who
accused sixteen people, you don' t
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have much data on her. It
is known that shortly after the trials,
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she was married to a community man
and traveled to Ipswich, but there is
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no idea what happened. There is
a rumor that he had a son and
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died along with the son within a
few days of delivery. She didn'
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t play Venus' glass, but
she claimed there was a ghost who besieged
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her telling her she would die very
soon. In one of the strangest testimonies,
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she claimed to have seen herself carrying
a strange dead child. In Mary
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Warren' s case, she died
just a few days after the last trials,
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shortly after she was about sixteen years
old. Suddenly she fell dead being
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in her house. She claimed that
she had been the victim of a sorcery
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by Tituba, commissioned no more or
less than by Abby Williams, with whom
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she had a married enmity, even
though she was barely eleven years old and
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Marry Warren twelve. What you think
coincidences is strange now what might have happened.
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Beyond this, science also has an
opinion. There is a very great
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possibility that not everything was its management
and product of the socio- political situation
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that was being experienced at the time. The fact that they were people with
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a virtually innate fear of the supernatural
and witchcraft would not necessarily lead to this.
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Some researchers who in the 1970s examined
the case thoroughly believe that there really
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could have been hallucinations, that these
girls saw something they were convinced of what
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they sometimes saw. Of course,
it was a performance. They all threw
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themselves on the same side, they
all said the same thing. Moreover,
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it was also a manipulation because many
of the accusations were instigated by the girls
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' own parents. And Putnam accused
the people his father told him to accuse.
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Many of the testimonies that are written
accusing people have been written by the
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same hand, and the hand is
that of the father, no more and
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no less than of Mercy Lewis.
So yes, if there was a manipulation,
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tremendous, there were interests involved and
these people wanted to kill some people
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to keep their lands to take away
enemies, to end family quarrels, ancestral
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quarrels, etcetera. But there was
also something else. In some of the
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interrogations, the testimonies of the people
seem to shed light that there was some
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sort of hallucination, at least a
hallucination that the girls did see something or
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believed they saw something faithfully, especially
when the testimonies were given for one at
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a time and suddenly under the pressure
of an interrogation, under the stress of
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being in a courtroom eating bar to
convulse and describing scenes that were craving the
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product of a hallucinatory phenomenon. In
nineteen hundred and seventy- six, several
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specialists in different areas studied the case
and proposed a possible solution. Ergott fungus
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a fungus typical of barley wheat rye
cereals in ergot fungus has a number of
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highly toxic compounds that can lead people
to episodes of seizures similar to an epileptic
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attack. They can slow the heart
rate until they cause an appearance of death,
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pro of course, causing vomiting,
frightening stomachaches, and intense hallucinations.
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But what a person hallucinates, probably
something he already knows, and in this
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case, the girls were in the
middle of a huge stress from the trials
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that had begun, from the first
accusations, from the fear of witchcraft,
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what s s s u s NS. They had probably all participated at some
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point in the game of Titus.
It wasn' t a big community,
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so the few girls who had had
contact with others and probably had the rumor
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of those strange games that slave Tituba
played for her owners, although it sounds
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grotesque, were her owners and probably
had the younger ones. What brought even
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more stress than combined with the Ergott
fungus caused those hallucinations that resulted from the
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death of people. Over the years, the Massachusetts government itself would issue a
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public apology at the place known as
Proctor Leche or gallow Hill. The hill
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of the gallows was built a kind
of memorial with the names of the people
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in rock and is maintained that of
the original constructions of the Villa de Salem,
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which is that you have two the
house of Rebeccanners, which right now
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we are seeing that it has been
preserved thanks to government support, and that
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it is three hundred and peak of
years and another couple of houses, among
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them that of the Reverend Parris himself. So today, Dumbers is a dynamic
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active place. Interestingly, the trial
by Salem, which is the other population,
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is remembered more than by Dumbers himself, which was where the whole problem
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began. Dumbers was the village of
Salem. Today, three hundred and twenty
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- nine years away, we cannot
help but think that these people were brutally
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murdered for personal interests, coupled with
a belief in the supernatural, deeply rooted,
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distorted belief in reality and probably most
likely by a fungus poisoning, yes,
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a simple mushroom of cereals cost the
life of more than twenty persons,
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one thousand six hundred ninety- two, the Bruges of Salem, and now
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it does allow me. I'
d love to send out some greetings we
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have around here. We want to
send a big greeting to our friend,
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Professor Tania Robles. She' s
been doing a lot of work and chat
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people are missing her. Carolina Ramos, who congratulates her father Martin Ramos very
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much. Don MartÃn' s gonna
be turning early and we' re sending
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him a big hug. Carolina is
a great friend of the channel. She
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is always present and we are happy
to be able to congratulate her father,
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who also accompanies us, Kyrus garro
She is Kirumi, and Kirumi congratulates her
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mother Cclali de la Rosa very much
and greets her affectionately. We send a
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hug to both of you many Thank
you for always being with us others,
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Thank you for your kind company.
A colleague and friend of ours, engineer
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Guillermo mary Ricotti, sends a big
hug to his wife Pilar. They are
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in Modena, Italy and are faithful, followers of this channel and fellow professional
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colleague. So the hug goes over
there and Ivan Castan. He greets his
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children, Ivan Edgar Stephany and his
wife Yamillie Mena. We are all accompanied
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by a whole family. How nice
for Gaby. Gaby congratulates his brother Daniel.
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He' s gonna be on November
2nd, but as we' ll
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get together, many better birthdays once
and for all. We sent a big
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hug to both of you. Thank
you for being friends with this channel.
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We also want to congratulate Luis Fernando
Castro Calleja. He' s a great
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friend and he' s just turned
out. So the hug goes. We
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also want to send a greeting to
Gris Juárez, who is also a follower
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of the channel. Thank you very
much for the whole company and we want
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to thank the people who support us
through SUPERFENX with their donations to the Canal,
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to Sunshun, to our friend bib
Broth, who has accompanied us since
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the beginning of the program, Carlos
Sánchez, Raúl Jiménez, who is always
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with us, Jorge Quesada, Maribel
Cuell, for RC for Yamira and Barbara
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who are in Buenos Aires, Jesusita
Ceballos, Mar Nena Pimentel, Hilda MartÃnez,
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Aurora Fernández, VÃctorÃlvarez. Thank
you very much to all of you
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for your contribution and support to this
channel. Alejandro Esteban and Eduardo, who
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are taking over Paraguay, send them
a greeting. Tatiana Noguera and her husband
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Mauricio Carlos Enrique Villalobos, and Ana
Judith, his wife, who listen to
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us together. Thank you very much, Luvia Gisela Vargas, who sends a
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greeting to her little sister, Arelli
Yanai, and I would recommend that Areli
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better see white flag stories. It' s a little bit more appropriate for
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your age. We thank you very
much for liking the stories, but it
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' s better white flag stories.
Believe me, anyway. Thank you all
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so much. Good night. We
listen very soon to good to give go to a
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If I say the word Salem to
you, you will most likely immediately come
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to the memory of witches, any
idea of witches, from comic witches to
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the cat of the haunted series and
all sorts of things. But the reality
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is that there are a lot of
stories behind them that are a little hidden.
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It is difficult to know for sure
what happened three hundred and twenty-
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nine years ago. It' s
hard to say. However, the particular
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case of the Salem trials, trials
for witchcraft, is a case that was
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well documented in its time and numerous
writings are preserved. It is one of
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those interesting topics that is worth listening
to again this Halloween night, the night
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of witches, tales of the dark
side, beings, strangers, inexplicable events,
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stories that other minds prefer to ignore. These images that I will begin
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to present correspond to an American city
in the United States, on the east
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coast of Dumpers, in the New
England area. It is a city that
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is currently bustling. It has about
twenty- six zero inhabitants. It'
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s not a city monster, but
it' s a modern active city,
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with many people coming in coming.
There is a port very close, there
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is a lot of fishing in the
area and there are in s rivers.
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So it' s a cheerful,
dynamic city, but with a very strange
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story. Behind three hundred and twenty- nine years ago, let me take
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you back in time. I located
less in one thousand six hundred ninety this
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same region, where today Dunvers is
at that time known as the Villa of
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Salem. It' s not the
same as the people of Salem. The
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village of Sad de Salem is a
little further south and is a metropolis,
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a little larger. They are very
peculiar places because they are people who have
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come from England and settled in this
region. It' s a cold area,
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it' s close to the Atlantic. It' s a very humid
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area, it has a lot of
vegetation, it has a lot of weird
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things at night, there are a
lot of animals. These people come from
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the old continent of England, so
they were used to these populous cities all
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congested, filled with small streets,
stinking and pestilent, and suddenly they are
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here in the middle of these incredibly
dark forests. At a time when there
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is no electric power, at a
time when there are many deeply rooted beliefs.
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Many of these inhabitants of the Villa
de Salem are Puritans. Puritan meant
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that it belonged neither to the Catholic
Church nor to the Anglican Church. Many
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of them could be Calvinists. Jacobinos. It was a general Puritan denomination,
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that is, they were very attached
to beliefs. They did not share the
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idea of the Anglican Church and its
reforms, but neither did the Catholic idea.
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In fact, many of these people
had to flee England because there was
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a time when there was a sort
of puritan revolution that caused so many people
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to be killed, executed, many
stripped, and had to flee and settled
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here. They are governed by a
series of very peculiar, deeply rooted rules.
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For example, the Reverend of the
Villa de Salem, Reverend Parris,
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is a very strict, very rigid, very conservative subject who has this mania
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of accusing people rather than preaching the
love of God. What he does is
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accuse people, call the demon who' s here, who' s there.
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You live in great fear, but
not only do you live in fear
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of the teachings of Reverend Parris,
but you also live in great fear of
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the English themselves. There is a
huge threat that King Charles I, at
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any moment, can command all this
to be razed to divide the land again
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among colonists favorable to the English crown. But there is also another very great
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risk and, for example, it
is the French. A little further north,
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in Canada there are French who are
enemies to the death of the English
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and can come down at any time
and raze the colonies. But it doesn
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' t end there. Native American
tribes are also a formidable adversary, although
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they have been further displaced to the
west. There are still many very violent
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tribes in these regions. So it' s no wonder that some whole family
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who started a journey in a cart
or some mail that came between the communities,
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disappeared to never know what had happened
and to top it off disease at
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some point shortly before, one thousand
six hundred and eighty- seven had been
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an epidemic of a species like Varisela. Of course, there was a lot
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of fear and if you add to
that that the dear Reverend Parris spends it
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giving sermons about the closeness of the
devil to the people of Salem. Well,
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then, we have a very dangerous
cocktail, so dangerous that people live
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in a lot of fear and then
something happens that gets out of the ordinary.
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The Reverend Parris has several members within
his family, among others, he
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has his own niece, Abigail Williams, about eleven years old, and his
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daughter Betty Parris, nine. They
are ultra- conservative little girls with their
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little cap, who talk about nothing
other than the love of God and the
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goodness of the Ministry of Rebvé Parris, of course, in public, because
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in private they are a couple of
rogues. Of the worst, they are
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so naughty that on one occasion they
have set to play the Venus glass game.
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It' s a divination trick to
find out who your husband is going
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to be. Oh, they'
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re already thinking about who their husband
is going to be. And there'
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s a little friend Ann Putnam,
who' s a little older and she
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' s an equally very pretty girl, with her little hat, with her
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little apron dress, who walks very
quietly, never raises her voice, but
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when she' s with the others
in private, she' s the devil
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himself and the talk, of course, always revolves around love and marriage.
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The fact is that this game,
the Venus glass game, is nothing but
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to put water in a clear glass
glass and then open an egg, remove
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the yolk and leave only the clear
that empties into the water. After waiting
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a moment, that assumes a form, an appearance that gives us an indication
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that it is what is coming.
This has been taught to them by Tituba.
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Tituba is the slave who lives with
them in the house of Reverend Parris.
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Tituba is not an Afro- descendant, not a person brought from Africa.
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It was bought in Barbados. In
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Araucan origin, probably from the Antilles, or perhaps even from some region of
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Venezuela. It' s hard to
know where it' s coming from.
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He speaks very poorly English, probably
because he did not speak even Spanish,
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but spoke a local dialect and was
captured and taken for sale Barbados, because
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he had to learn it to survive
Tituba is very close to the girls and
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usually spend a lot of time with
them inventing stories of amazing magical things.
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She' s not a Christian.
He actually still professes his own beliefs.
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Just like your husband. There was
a custom of buying a slave and buying
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a slave to marry and have offspring. A terrible practice, of course,
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but which at the time was legitimate. The fact is that Tituba spends the
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days with these little girls making up
stories to earn her affection about spells and
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so on. She shows them the
game. That one one time they are
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doing this and suddenly what appears there
causes them a lot of fear, because
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what there is there to say about
dear Abby Williams is a coffin. She
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distinguishes there' s a coffin.
Ann Putnam' s turn shows up a
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figure she interprets as a hat man
and claims she already knows who she is.
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In Betty Parris' case, you
don' t think so. He
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definitely doesn' t have the touch
for this. But when the sarcophagus appears,
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the casket, the three of them
get very frightened to the point where
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the very tituba throws that out and
breaks the glass and asks them not to
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say anything. Please don' t
say anything. She knows that being a
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slave, probably if Reverend Parris finds
out, that she' s been teaching
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them forbidden things and making tricks for
them, things that are silly for her.
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She knows that none of this is
true, but since he' s
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nailed and exotic, he tries to
convince them. The girls keep quiet.
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By January of one thousand six hundred
and ninety- two, Abigail Williams and
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Betty Parris begin to suffer a series
of strange attacks out of nowhere. They
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start screaming franticly saying they see horrible
things. One of them claims there'
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s a huge black bird in front
of her. It' s the bird
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of death that comes for it.
The other one pulls to the ground and
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convulses at the same time as vomiting
and foaming, ensuring that a demon is
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besieging him. The other one doesn' t lose sight that they' re
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nine and eleven years old. The
other claims that an old woman- shaped
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spectrum is pricking him, nailing him
with things, and that it hurts him
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a lot. The point is,
after a moment of being with this,
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they faint. But this begins to
be repeated with a certain frequency to the
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point where Reverend Parris is visibly alarmed
and causes a doctor to come. When
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the doctor arrives, he witnesses one
of these attacks. Watch the girls wallowing
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on the floor, foaming at the
mouth, screaming horribly with their eyes disorbited
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as they point to things. Even
one of them gets to pee in her
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clothes. After listening to them and
checking them carefully with the doctor. He
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confesses that he is concerned. That
has every indication of being a sorcerer'
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s job. The girls are haunted. This is very serious, very serious.
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Who the hell haunted them? That' s the big question. They
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have no way of knowing it,
but the attacks continue day by day and
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become much more intense. At the
same time as this is happening, it
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is known that and Putnam, the
little friend, the one who often comes
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to talk about licentious things, is
also suffering things. He has visions,
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he throws himself on the floor,
he screams, he does very strange things,
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but how to know who has haunted
them. There is a very simple
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solution. A friend of the family
knows how to make a witch cake.
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A witch' s cake is nothing
but a kind of rye bread that is
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prepared by mixing the flour with the
afflicted person' s urine. In this
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case, the three girls who provide
samples to prepare what is placed in an
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oven and then feed a dog.
The general idea is that, from this,
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they would know who or who would
have done that to them. And,
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in fact, very soon, after
a severe attack, they begin to
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say that what they are seeing are
nothing other than Sarah Osbourne and Sarah Wood
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and, of course, the slave. Tito goes, when he goes,
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he hears that good, he faints, he composes himself again, he faints
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again. He knows his days are
numbered. These girls are accusing him of
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witchcraft. Sarah Osbourne and Sara Wood
have no idea what' s going on.
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They' re a couple of old
women who aren' t really much
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appreciated. He' s the kind
of person who wanders the streets, sometimes
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a little drunk, sometimes cursing dirty
stinking with all- loving clothes, tangled
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hair. The girls just charged them
directly. A reverend parris immediately spreads the
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word that the girls have been haunted
by those women. And that' s
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where the real history of error begins. Women are immediately arrested. Sarah Osbourne,
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Sarawud are being interrogated. When she
plays Sarah Osbourne' s turn,
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she just says I have no idea
what they' re talking about. I
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don' t know what you'
re talking about, I don' t
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even know who those people are.
When they insist, she responds again I
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have no idea. I don'
t do witchcraft and then release a series
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of impropernesses against the characters those who
are interrogating. When he plays the turn
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to the next Sara, she responds
in the same way, but in the
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midst of laughter and burps, because
she is good a little drunk, which
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makes her think she is mocking and, therefore, she must be hiding something
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But of course, when Tituba'
s turn comes, this was a woman
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who was not foolish. I knew
I' d only have one chance to
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get out of this alive, one
chance. What would happen if she failed
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is that she would be hung and
the man she was married to, John,
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would also be hung. So,
when it comes to asking her,
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she confesses everything she fully confesses.
You know that, not being a Christian,
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you' re not obliged and you' re not going to hell.
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Their beliefs go further. So without
much modesty, she confesses that she has
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prepared those enchantments and haunted the girls
and haunted other girls and taught them horrible
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things and describes ceremonies and rituals.
When they ask someone else, he'
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s with you already he answers if, of course, and that' s
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where the nightmare begins again, because
he starts pointing people, among others,
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to Rebecca Neers. Rebecca Ners was
a highly respected woman in the Community,
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an old woman of great prestige,
from a family of the founders, and
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points her out directly, but she
also points to other people, among others,
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Brigette Bishop, Anner Pudator and several
others. The judges ask for more
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information, but as it is formed
it is then established, by order of
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the Governor of Massachusetts, a special
court known as the Court of Hearing and
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finishing to hear and determine this.
It was a sort of inquisitorial court,
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although there was no holy inquisition here
because they did not profess the Catholic faith.
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It was kind of an inquisitorial court. It was a group of judges
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with a number of magistrates. The
accuser had no right to defence, simply
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to confess or not to confess,
admit or admit. Depending on this would
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be what would be done to the
defendant. The trials begin very soon and
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the trials become crazy, because the
girls are now adding up, not only
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are the first three, but other
young girls have been incorporated. Elizabeth Wooth,
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Elizabeth Habvard, Mercy Louis, Susana
Sheldon, Mary Walcott, Mary Warren
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add up and each of them brings
something new, one ensures that at night
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Rebecanners has come to her bed and
that she has attacked her horribly and that
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it hurts her and another one ensures
that she is a man and believes to
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recognize him in the figure of one
of the men in the village. All
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this is being added to the fear
that there was already, because, besides,
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during the trial suddenly some of these
girls are declaring against Rebecca, against
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Bishop' s or any of them, suddenly falls to the floor and starts
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screaming and foaming and then. All
the other girls start falling to the floor
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and screaming to the point where many
people prefer to get out of there because
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they' re so scared. Some
remain so static as boards that at some
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point, when they tried to lift
them, they could lift them up at
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the tip and head as if it
were a table of the rigidity they presented
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at other times, they claimed to
be seeing spectra of hell. A man
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in black, another man in a
hat and gradually added up all this as
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he meticulously scored. The accusations were
very severe because, according to English law
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at the time, the proven accusation
of Witchcraft meant death. Unlike some trials
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where people were burned, in the
English case in particular they were not burned,
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they were hanged solely for great treason. The person' s body was
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burned after he had been hanged.
But in the case of Witchcraft it was
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the gallows that these people faced.
The problem is that, as weeks and
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months go by, more and more
accused people do not fit, of course,
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in the small prison of the Villa
de Salem. They can' t
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fit. So they are sent to
Salem, to the people of Salem,
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and to Aish. Others are sent
to Ipswich, and others to Boston,
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where they remain in prisons accused of
witchcraft. Many of them are chained in
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basements and cannot move because, according
to the belief of the time, witches
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and witches could occupy a space to
turn it into a sort of magical cell
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and escape. That is why they
were chained in these conditions. Many people
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died within the prisons themselves. They
didn' t even have to be prosecuted.
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They died there because of illness,
because of cold. It was in
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winter. When it passed from winter
to spring and then summer came. The
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rains, the humidity that I ended
with many people and the trials continued with
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an impressive astonishment, because there were
also more than 200 accused. The vast
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majority of them are from Salem Village, Salem Village, which is now known
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as Dumbers. But they weren'
t all from there. There were people
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who weren' t even from there. Moreover, one of the strangest cases
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that came up during the trial was
the accusation against Captain John Alden Jr,
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descendant of the first settlers who arrived
in the Mayflower. Captain Alden Junior was
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passing by, he was walking,
he wasn' t even going to stay,
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he was only walking with two or
three of his juniors, when a
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boy in the middle of the street
started screaming, saying to that man he
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' s a sorcerer and that was
enough for him to be arrested, sent
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to the dungeon and tried him for
his good fortune and, of course,
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being a military man and a highly
appreciated man, a large group of his
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men arrived, broke the prison and
threw him out along with two or three
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others didn' t act, but
the people of Alden intended to end this
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and kill those people. He didn' t allow it. The trials were
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followed and suddenly when Rebeccan Neerse'
s turn came. Many people in the
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village refused to do this, accusing
Reverend Parris of all this being a farce,
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a real farce that made no sense. Rebeccanners was one of the most
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respected women in the whole town,
but she was a very wealthy woman.
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That' s clear. She was
still charged and brought to trial. The
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ns family. Rebecca Ners had had
numerous frictions with the Putnams over land.
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In Bridget Bishop' s case.
This woman was a woman who wasn'
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t Puritan, she was more of
a party girl, a little drunk.
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I' d had several marriages,
used to be rude, and I didn
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' t go to Reverend Parris'
sermons. He had some money, certainly,
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but his main problem is that she
was at odds with this man.
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The other person and pudator ambe Dator
was a very wealthy widow who had always
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been badly seen. She was a
folkloric woman, she loved the showy dresses
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and she had married a very peculiar
character. You see, she was a
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midwife and healer one day she was
called to the Villa de Salem to take
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care of a woman who was sick, named Claudia. For some time she
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took care of this woman until the
woman, who was a stubborn alcoholic,
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probably died of the same evil of
alcoholism. After the death of that publisher
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' s anus, he married Jacob
the widower. The problem is that he
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was twenty years younger handsome and very
wealthy, which immediately generated an aura of
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mystery and accusations of witchcraft. This
woman had bewitched Jacob and that' s
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why she married him And to the
full of evils, the good Jacob dies
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very soon and, therefore, now
the accusation is that he not only bewitched
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him to stay with him, but
to kill him. And all this adds
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up to the accusations of one of
the scuinclas which points to her floating over
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her bed. Of course, there
were also those who accused them of having
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seen them flying in a broom.
Even if you don' t believe it.
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Another accused person was Alice Parker Parker, a particularly grumpy woman, much
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given to cursing, much given to
throwing things at others. He never had
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children. So he was a particularly
bitter person. He lived a little isolated
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from the community. He didn'
t used to take it, he was
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an easy object to attack. But
she also owned some kind of big estate.
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A person accused of witchcraft had no
right to inherit property from his offspring.
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But in the case of Alice,
there were also no descendants. Therefore,
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the properties would be owned by the
village of Salem itself and could be
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managed by Reverend Parris. But,
of course, all this is speculation,
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because at that time and in front
of the judge and in front of the
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court to hear and determine these were
terrible witches and they were accused. The
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fact is that the first one to
be executed was Bridget Bishop. On June
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10th, one thousand six hundred and
ninety- two was taken to a site
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known as gallow Hill, today known
as Proctor Letze, and on this site
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a gallows were set up and hung. During the following days, a wave
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of people were hung right there,
at least eight, just in three days,
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when the protests were growing, led
by the Proctor family, John Proctor,
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William Proctor. They all protest against
this. It is, moreover,
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desirable that am Putnam ensure that during
the night, John Proctor has come to
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visit her in spirit form and that
he is a sorcerer. Another of the
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girls claims that John Proctor has been
some kind of ghostly lover during the nights
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John Proctor is married to Elizabeth and
will have the first baby in his family.
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She is waiting to drink, but
she is also accused of sorcery came
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to a point where the entire Proctor
family is arrested and brought to trial.
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The rest of the villagers, the
people of the Villa de Salem are very
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afraid. There are people who no
longer dare to say anything, but the
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proctors continue to fight and write letters, accusing Reverend Parris, accusing this false
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trial and all the lies being told
there. By now, the number of
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people executed continues to grow. There
is one particular case that would otherwise be
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dramatic, the Gills Corey case.
Corey owned one of the best lands in
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the whole region when he was surprisingly
accused of witchcraft this man was very fond
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of the church. He was a
member of the church, part of the
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church and was accused of witchcraft,
arrested and asked to admit guilt. He
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flatly refused. Then came the torture. The common practice for obtaining a confession
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in these cases was to crush him, place him face down naked on the
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floor with a heavy board on top
and go placing stones until he could no
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longer and confess. Gills Corey never
confessed. He died. He died crushed,
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he died suffocated by the weight they
had put on him For three days
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he was resisting until he died.
The letters that were sent by the proctors
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were heard, but it would not
be until well into September, almost at
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the end that I opened an answer
for that moment. People like rebeccaners like
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John Proctor, they were dead.
They had been hanged in a total of
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twenty people were hanged. Gills Corey
was killed by crushing and at least ten
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more died in the basements, where
they were locked up for disease without cold
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anion whatever it was. At the
end of September of one thousand and six
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hundred and ninety- two, a
court in Boston ordered the immediate suspension of
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all this. It was also cancelled
that evidence could be taken as evidence of
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the testimonies of persons allegedly affected,
that is, the testimonies of the girls,
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those shouting and kicking. It was
determined that the court had acted badly
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and during the following years various records
would be issued offering apologies for this.
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However, none of the accusers would
be prosecuted. The only one who would
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see any guilt would be the Reverend
Parris, who by one thousand six hundred
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and ninety- seven, about four
years after the last executions, would be
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expelled from the Church of the Villa
de Salem and would fall misfortune. The
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rest would not be charged as such, but neither would I make any apology.
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They wouldn' t offer an apology, they wouldn' t confess to
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feeling sorry, they wouldn' t
recognize having invented all this. The only
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person who ever apologized for that was
and Putnam. What happened to everyone.
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Well, that' s part of
the story that also gets very interesting,
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and you' ll see why it' s interesting Tituba the slave after confessing
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was arrested along with the man who
had been married. Both remained in prison,
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as Reverend Parris refused to pay the
costs of the trial and therefore could
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not be released. Having accepted the
guilt and having denounced their accomplices, they
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could be released. The cause is
not that they were left as free slaves.
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They would no longer be slaves,
but when Parris refused, they could
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not leave prison until someone bought them. The price paid for them was the
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same as the costs of the trial
and were delivered. From that point on,
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we don' t even know what
became of them. They' ll
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probably have remained slaves on some plantation
or somewhere until their death. As for
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the alleged victims. Betty Parris.
Betty Parris, the daughter of Reverend Parris,
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would die in a thousand seven hundred
and sixty after a long and fruitful
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life, when she played the Venus
glass game. Nothing appeared to her.
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As for Bigail Williams, Abby Williams
wouldn' t even finish seeing the trials.
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Shortly after the trials began, she
disappeared completely and no news of her
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was heard again. It is believed
that Reverend Barris would have sent her home
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or taken her away from there.
All we know is that he died when
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he was seventeen, very shortly after
the trials. Abby Williams died just as
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she had seen him in the passage
of Venus, as she had seen in
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that image. As for dear Ann
Putnam. This woman would be the cause
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of sixty- two accusations. He
accused half the town. She was the
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promoter of many of these people that
these people were executed at the end of
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the trials. It remains in the
Villa de Salem, but in a very
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strange way. His parents die almost
immediately after the trials. Both die at
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the same time and as the eldest
daughter of the family, she would have
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to take care of the brothers to
raise them and never marry. Why do
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you know anything about her? One
of the sons of the Proctor family was
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the man who had seen in the
vessel of Venus, only that man had
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been hanged. She never met Man, never was married, never had children.
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She died alone without anyone knowing the
moment she died. As for Mercy
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Lewis, one of the girls who
accused sixteen people, you don' t
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have much data on her. It
is known that shortly after the trials,
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she was married to a community man
and traveled to Ipswich, but there is
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no idea what happened. There is
a rumor that he had a son and
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died along with the son within a
few days of delivery. She didn'
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t play Venus' glass, but
she claimed there was a ghost who besieged
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her telling her she would die very
soon. In one of the strangest testimonies,
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she claimed to have seen herself carrying
a strange dead child. In Mary
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Warren' s case, she died
just a few days after the last trials,
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shortly after she was about sixteen years
old. Suddenly she fell dead being
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in her house. She claimed that
she had been the victim of a sorcery
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by Tituba, commissioned no more or
less than by Abby Williams, with whom
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she had a married enmity, even
though she was barely eleven years old and
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Marry Warren twelve. What you think
coincidences is strange now what might have happened.
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Beyond this, science also has an
opinion. There is a very great
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possibility that not everything was its management
and product of the socio- political situation
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that was being experienced at the time. The fact that they were people with
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a virtually innate fear of the supernatural
and witchcraft would not necessarily lead to this.
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Some researchers who in the 1970s examined
the case thoroughly believe that there really
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could have been hallucinations, that these
girls saw something they were convinced of what
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they sometimes saw. Of course,
it was a performance. They all threw
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themselves on the same side, they
all said the same thing. Moreover,
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it was also a manipulation because many
of the accusations were instigated by the girls
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' own parents. And Putnam accused
the people his father told him to accuse.
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Many of the testimonies that are written
accusing people have been written by the
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same hand, and the hand is
that of the father, no more and
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no less than of Mercy Lewis.
So yes, if there was a manipulation,
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tremendous, there were interests involved and
these people wanted to kill some people
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to keep their lands to take away
enemies, to end family quarrels, ancestral
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quarrels, etcetera. But there was
also something else. In some of the
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interrogations, the testimonies of the people
seem to shed light that there was some
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sort of hallucination, at least a
hallucination that the girls did see something or
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believed they saw something faithfully, especially
when the testimonies were given for one at
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a time and suddenly under the pressure
of an interrogation, under the stress of
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being in a courtroom eating bar to
convulse and describing scenes that were craving the
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product of a hallucinatory phenomenon. In
nineteen hundred and seventy- six, several
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specialists in different areas studied the case
and proposed a possible solution. Ergott fungus
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a fungus typical of barley wheat rye
cereals in ergot fungus has a number of
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highly toxic compounds that can lead people
to episodes of seizures similar to an epileptic
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attack. They can slow the heart
rate until they cause an appearance of death,
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pro of course, causing vomiting,
frightening stomachaches, and intense hallucinations.
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But what a person hallucinates, probably
something he already knows, and in this
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case, the girls were in the
middle of a huge stress from the trials
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that had begun, from the first
accusations, from the fear of witchcraft,
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what s s s u s NS. They had probably all participated at some
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point in the game of Titus.
It wasn' t a big community,
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so the few girls who had had
contact with others and probably had the rumor
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of those strange games that slave Tituba
played for her owners, although it sounds
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grotesque, were her owners and probably
had the younger ones. What brought even
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more stress than combined with the Ergott
fungus caused those hallucinations that resulted from the
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death of people. Over the years, the Massachusetts government itself would issue a
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public apology at the place known as
Proctor Leche or gallow Hill. The hill
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of the gallows was built a kind
of memorial with the names of the people
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in rock and is maintained that of
the original constructions of the Villa de Salem,
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which is that you have two the
house of Rebeccanners, which right now
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we are seeing that it has been
preserved thanks to government support, and that
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it is three hundred and peak of
years and another couple of houses, among
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them that of the Reverend Parris himself. So today, Dumbers is a dynamic
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active place. Interestingly, the trial
by Salem, which is the other population,
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is remembered more than by Dumbers himself, which was where the whole problem
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began. Dumbers was the village of
Salem. Today, three hundred and twenty
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- nine years away, we cannot
help but think that these people were brutally
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murdered for personal interests, coupled with
a belief in the supernatural, deeply rooted,
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distorted belief in reality and probably most
likely by a fungus poisoning, yes,
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a simple mushroom of cereals cost the
life of more than twenty persons,
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one thousand six hundred ninety- two, the Bruges of Salem, and now
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it does allow me. I'
d love to send out some greetings we
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have around here. We want to
send a big greeting to our friend,
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Professor Tania Robles. She' s
been doing a lot of work and chat
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people are missing her. Carolina Ramos, who congratulates her father Martin Ramos very
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much. Don MartÃn' s gonna
be turning early and we' re sending
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him a big hug. Carolina is
a great friend of the channel. She
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is always present and we are happy
to be able to congratulate her father,
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who also accompanies us, Kyrus garro
She is Kirumi, and Kirumi congratulates her
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mother Cclali de la Rosa very much
and greets her affectionately. We send a
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hug to both of you many Thank
you for always being with us others,
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Thank you for your kind company.
A colleague and friend of ours, engineer
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Guillermo mary Ricotti, sends a big
hug to his wife Pilar. They are
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in Modena, Italy and are faithful, followers of this channel and fellow professional
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colleague. So the hug goes over
there and Ivan Castan. He greets his
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children, Ivan Edgar Stephany and his
wife Yamillie Mena. We are all accompanied
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by a whole family. How nice
for Gaby. Gaby congratulates his brother Daniel.
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He' s gonna be on November
2nd, but as we' ll
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get together, many better birthdays once
and for all. We sent a big
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hug to both of you. Thank
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We also want to congratulate Luis Fernando
Castro Calleja. He' s a great
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friend and he' s just turned
out. So the hug goes. We
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also want to send a greeting to
Gris Juárez, who is also a follower
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of the channel. Thank you very
much for the whole company and we want
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to thank the people who support us
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to Sunshun, to our friend bib
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the beginning of the program, Carlos
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with us, Jorge Quesada, Maribel
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who are in Buenos Aires, Jesusita
Ceballos, Mar Nena Pimentel, Hilda MartÃnez,
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Aurora Fernández, VÃctorÃlvarez. Thank
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for your contribution and support to this
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are taking over Paraguay, send them
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Mauricio Carlos Enrique Villalobos, and Ana
Judith, his wife, who listen to
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us together. Thank you very much, Luvia Gisela Vargas, who sends a
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greeting to her little sister, Arelli
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better see white flag stories. It' s a little bit more appropriate for
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your age. We thank you very
much for liking the stories, but it
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' s better white flag stories.
Believe me, anyway. Thank you all
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so much. Good night. We
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