Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.

Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.

Hoping to cease not till death.

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you

About the tenth day of my fame I went to fulfil my duty to my flag by paying my respects to the American minister.

I was pretty nervous; in fact, pretty badly frightened, though, of course, I was no way in fault;

Then he was restored to his normal condition, and made a thousand apologies for not being able to break the bill

A said he would starve to death; Brother B said he wouldn’t.

My mouth watered for it, my stomach craved it, my whole being begged for it.

“Go on! go on!  Read! read some more!  Read all you’ve got!”

He said that this reputation was a treasure of priceless value;

True.  Very well, what shall we do—make the inquiry private?  No, not that; it would spoil the romance.

Don’t!  It scares me yet, to think of it.

“Oh, of course; but he didn’t care.  I reckon he was the best-hated man among us, except the Reverend Burgess.

But he was gone.

And in the meantime, while you are running on with your jokes, the money is still here, and it is fast getting along toward burglar-time.”

rich and comfortable.”

There is a paper attached to the sack which will explain everything.  Good-night, madam.”

No, he was gone to Brixton, and might not return before morning.

Follow the impulse of thy generous heart, my Emily.

“for I am certain I can inform her of something which will give her peculiar pleasure.”

“for I am sure my cousin omitted nothing that could serve to render the evening agreeable.

Citizen shall have an inalienable right to be judged by arbiters at their choice.

The Indian of North America being more within our reach, I can speak of him somewhat from my own knowledge

My soul acquiesced fully in the will of God,

from Christ’s heart to mine

ell opens its mouth wide to receive them

emarkable awakening in my father’s congregation.

I had a variety of concerns and exercises about my soul from my childhood;

absorb­ing it into a cyclic story that has less to do with time gone by than it does with the cur­rent moment.

When it is over, vis­i­tors are asked to “exit through the gift shop.”

the Witch Museum func­tions by per­for­mance alone, choos­ing to use as its “orig­i­nal” not an object from the past or a 1692 site, but a “true story”

hat co-opts and ulti­mately replaces the actual, orig­i­nal Salem jail and the pris­on­ers it hel

am­pires, and hor­ror — and not its his­tor­i­cal past.

because they are like the orig­i­nals but not the orig­i­nal

his­tory is erased or obscured because it has been iden­ti­fied as touris­tic.

As you explore our places, attend the voices of our past. You may find them haunt­ingly famil­iar. Our his­tory may be an echo of your own story being told

tourism sup­planted all indus­trial, mer­can­tile, and fish­ing busi­nesses as Salem’s num­ber one money-maker.

the Wic­can com­mu­nity is thriv­ing, and witchcraft-related attrac­tions con­tinue to draw the great­est crowds in Salem

Play your part in his­tory.

The tourist becomes, in this the­atri­cal expe­ri­ence and in most Salem tourism, both pas­sive audi­ence mem­ber and active shaper of the expe­ri­ence, and per­form­ers are both rein­car­na­tions of Puri­tans past and cre­ators of a con­stantly evolv­ing truth.

“facts” are cre­ated by the inter­ac­tion between site, viewer, and a neb­u­lous char­ac­ter called “the past.”

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Raging Dragons

he arrived safe with them all

he would Ride away with That which he should in this Extremity find his Affections to pitch most upon, and leave the Rest unto the care of the Divine Providence.

a very generous Token of his Favour.

But cutting off the Scalps of the Ten Wretches,

he thought she was not Forbidden by any Law to take away the Life of the Murderers

hey must be Stript, and Scourg'd, and run the Gantlet through the whole Army of Indians.

Nor did their praying Friends among our selves, forbear to Pour out Supplications for them

Indeed these Idolaters were like the rest of their whiter Brethren, Persecutors; and would not endure, that these poor Women should Retire to their English Prayers, if they could hinder them.

they dash'd out the Brains of the Infant, against a Tree;

he arrived safe with them all,

he would Ride away with That which he should in this Extremity find his Affections to pitch most upon, and leave the Rest unto the care of the Divine Providence.

which were from Two to Seventeen years of Age)

alvages

Queen of Heb

that the prisoner was the undoing of her, and her Children, by enticing them into the snare of the Devi

she should within two or three days be poisoned

which without any known cause quickly fell down and dy’d.

lost his Cattle, by strange Deaths, whereof no natural causes could be given.

he could thrust a knitting Needle into his wound,

Allin Toothaker testify’d, That Richard, the son of Martha Carrier, having some difference with him, pull’d him down by the Hair of the Head. When he Rose again, he was going to strike at Richard Carrier; but fell down flat on his Back to the ground, and had not power to stir hand or foot, until he told Carrier he yielded; and then he saw the shape of Martha Carrier, go off his breast.

and put him to very great Misery:

were very credible in what they said.

everal of her own Children had frankly and fully confessed, not only that they were Witches themselves, but that this their Mother had made them so

but that upon the[Pg 155] binding of Carrier they were eased.

will not fear; what can a Satan do unto me!

nless written in the Liquor wherewith Witches use to write their Covenants

this extraordinary Time of the Devils coming down in great Wrath upon us,

Person molested by Evil Spirits,

Oh the roaring, and singing and dancing, and yelling of those black creatures in the night, which made the place a lively resemblance of hell. And as miserable was the waste that was there made of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, calves, lambs, roasting pigs, and fowl (which they had plundered in the town), some roasting, some lying and burning, and some boiling to feed our merciless enemies

were slain and mangled in a barbarous manner,

told me they would kill him as he came homeward)

boiling to feed our merciless enemies

those black creatures in the night, which made the place a lively resemblance of hell.

barbarous creatures

That they are the vanity of vanities, and vexation of spirit, that they are but a shadow, a blast, a bubble, and things of no continuance. That we must rely on God Himself, and our whole dependance must be upon Him.

t is good for me that I have been afflicted.”

Affliction I wanted, and affliction I had, full measure (I thought), pressed down and running over.

But now I see the Lord had His time to scourge and chasten me.

One hour I have been in health, and wealthy, wanting nothing. But the next hour in sickness and wounds, and death, having nothing but sorrow and affliction.

When all are fast about me, and no eye open, but His who ever waketh, my thoughts are upon things past, upon the awful dispensation of the Lord towards us, upon His wonderful power and might, in carrying of us through so many difficulties, in returning us in safety, and suffering none to hurt us.

Still the Lord went along with us

squaw

My sister’s son was redeemed for four pounds

thinking how it suffered with its wounds, and I was no way able to relieve it; and how it was buried by the heathen in the wilderness from among all Christians

The twenty pounds, the price of my redemption, was raised by some Boston gentlemen

I met with my dear husband

There I met with my brother, and my brother-in-law, who asked me, if I knew where his wife was? Poor heart! he had helped to bury her, and knew it not.

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy

but desired to wait God’s time, that I might go home quietly, and without fear.

and go home along with me. I told him no:

ards they assented to it, and seemed much to rejoice in it; some asked me to send them some bread, others some tobacco, others shaking me by the hand, offering me a hood and scarfe to ride in

and many times devilish cruelty to the English.

They would eat horse’s guts, and ears, and all sorts of wild birds which they could catch; also bear, venison, beaver, tortoise, frogs, squirrels, dogs, skunks, rattlesnakes; yea, the very bark of trees; besides all sorts of creatures, and provision which they plundered from the English.

English! strangely did the Lord provide for them; that I did not see (all the time I was among them) one man, woman, or child, die with hunger.

I cannot but remember how the Indians derided the slowness, and dullness of the English army, in its setting out

. I told them, they had as good knock me in head as starve me to death.

but lay sucking, gnawing, chewing and slabbering of it in the mouth and hand.

I saw an Englishman stripped naked, and lying dead upon the ground, but knew not who it was.

So like were these barbarous creatures to him who was a liar from the beginning.

knew that He laid upon me less than I deserved.

barbarous heathens

forgetting where I was, and what my condition was;

nd she threw a handful of ashes in mine eyes.

He answered me that such a time his master roasted him, and that himself did eat a piece of him, as big as his two fingers, and that he was very good meat.

my master being gone, who seemed to me the best friend that I had of an Indian,

complained it was too heavy, whereupon she gave me a slap in the face,

she found me sitting and reading in my Bible; she snatched it hastily out of my hand, and threw it out of doors.

Nux,” which did much rejoice my spirit.

It was upon a Sabbath-day-morning

And His goodness in bringing to my hand so many comfortable and suitable scriptures in my distress.

Some of the Indians ran one way, and some another.

On the Saturday they boiled an old horse’s leg which they had got, and so we drank of the broth, as soon as they thought it was ready, and when it was almost all gone, they filled it up again.

Wait on the Lord, Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine Heart, wait I say on the Lord.”

nd she very big with child, and had but one week to reckon, and another child in her arms, two years old

where I saw the ground was newly digged, and there they told me they had buried it.

I cannot but take notice how at another time I could not bear to be in the room where any dead person was, but now the case is changed; I must and could lie down by my dead babe, side by side all the night after

how righteous it was with God to cut off the thread of my life and cast me out of His presence forever

calling much for water

But the Lord renewed my strength

that they fell upon him as if they would have eaten him : some of them were so violent that they would have a slice with scabbard and all for haste

that no violence should be offered to his no violence

The Captain ripped and tore his clothes for anger, to see the empty nest, and their bird gone.

he as peremptorily replied, that he would not say whether he had, or he had not done as they had been informed.

Beaver,

conspired together against mine host especially, (who was the owner of that Plantation) and made up a party against him

ey did creepe and winde into the good opinion of the illiterate multitude,

the meanes, they crie, alas, poore Soules

The Separatists, envying the prosperity and hope of the Plantation at Ma-re Mount,

This harmeles mirth made by younge men, (that lived in hope to have wifes brought over to them, that would save them a labour to make a voyage to fetch any over,) was much distasted of the precise Separatists

beaver coats

Neclar is a thing aJJigiHd

boycs

knowinge the wine would make them Proteftants

id from that time afterwards call the English Planters Wotawquenange, which in their language signifieth stabbers, or Cutthroats:

hanging salvages about their necks,)

Thus doe they paffe awaye the time merrily, not regarding our pompe,

They are not delighted in baubles, but care ‘ in ufefull things…

A bifket cake given to one, that one breakes it equally into fo many parts

many commodities of our Nation, yet they keepe but fewe, and thofe of fpeciall ufe

hat I would let his son be brought up in my not savage house, that he might be taught to read in that book

what Kytan has commanded us

because they were good) went to the house of Kytan, pointing to the setting of the sun;

savages‘ where they imagine is the habitation of the Devil) the other,

and made God so angry that he let in the sea upon them, and drowned the greater part of them

alvages are found to be without religion, law, and king (as Sir William Alexander has well observed) they are not altogether without the knowledge of God (historically.)

arth hath enough of what you will. Then let not go what thou maist find For things unknown only in mind.

Meditation?

Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true, Who thee abroad expos'd to public view, Made thee in rags, halting to th' press to trudge, Where errors were not lessened (all may judge)

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure: A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

Those seven that were killed at Lancaster the summer before upon a Sabbath day, and the one that was afterward killed upon a weekday, were slain and mangled in a barbarous manner, by one-eyed John, and Marlborough’s Praying Indians, which Capt. Mosely brought to Boston, as the Indians told me.

my children gone, my relations and friends gone, our house and home and all our comforts—within door and without—all was gone (except my life), and I knew not but the next moment that might go too.

which made the place a lively resemblance of hell.

Besids, here the people are but few in comparison of other places, which are full & populous, and lye hid, as it were, in a wood or thickett, and many horrible evills by yt means are never seen nor [461]knowne; wheras hear, they are, as it were, brought into ye light, and set in ye plaine feeld, or rather on a hill, made conspicuous to ye veiw of all…

our corrupte natures,

kill their katle, and lye in ambush for them as they went abroad upon their occasions; and all this they might easily doe without any or litle danger to them selves

(a man of pretie parts,

t may be thought strang that these people should fall to these extremities in so short a time,

If any did unjustly warr against him, they would aide him; if any did warr against them, he should aide them

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most sadd & lamentable was, that in 2. or 3. moneths time halfe of their company dyed, espetialy in Jan: & February, being ye depth of winter, and wanting houses & other comforts; being infected with ye scurvie & [55] other diseases, which this long vioage & their inacomodate condition had brought upon them; so as ther dyed some times

Besids, what could they see but a hidious & desolate wildernes, full of wild beasts & willd men?

So they com̅ited them selves to ye will of God, & resolved to proseede

which ye shipe was shroudly shaken, and her upper works made very leakie; and one of the maine beames in ye midd ships was bowed & craked, which put them in some fear that ye shipe could not be able to performe ye vioage. So some of ye cheefe of ye company, perceiveing ye mariners to feare ye suffisiencie of ye shipe

These troubls being blowne over, and now all being compacte togeather in one shipe,[AE] they put to sea againe with a prosperus winde, which continued diverce days togeather, which was some incouragmente unto them;

I must begine at ye very roote & rise of ye same.

The latter killed in that pueblo Fray Juan de la Pedrosa, two Spanish women, and three children. There died also at the hands of the said enemies in Galisteo Joseph Nieto, two sons of Maestre de Campo Leiva, Francisco de Anaya, the younger, who was with the escort, and the wives of Maestre de Campo Leiva and Joseph Nieto, with all their daughters and families.

ith a squadron of soldiers sufficient to investigate this case and also to attempt to extinguish the flame of the ruin already begun

for it had been a long time since they had done us any considerable damage.

“If I end his life, my own life is ended.”

They had no calendar and that was the best way they had of setting the date.

wanted all the young girls to be brought to him when they were about thirteen or fourteen years old.

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Some died for lack of food and water, while others developed scabs and sores on their bodies.

They were so scared that they could do nothing but allow themselves to be made

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