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Witches
American history has few subjects as interesting as witchcraft, because
it confronts us with many Ideas about women. It confronts us with fears about
women, the place of women in society, and with women themselves. Also, it
confronts us with violence against women and how the problems of society were
often blamed on ....
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.... continued, with relapse against the ordinary course, and
beyond the apprehension of all physicians and surgeons."(P.21) Hale also
mentioned that Jones was believed to possess psychic powers: "some things which
she foretold came to pass accordingly; other things she could tell of ... she
had no ordinary means to come to the knowledge of."(P.20) John Hale pointed out
that several of Jones's neighbors tried to get her to confess and repent. One
of them, he said, "prayed her to consider if God did not bring this punishment
upon her for some other crime, and ask ....
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