Vexed With Devils: Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England by Erika Gasser

Vexed With Devils: Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England by Erika Gasser

Author:Erika Gasser
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: New England (CT; MA; ME; NH; RI; VT), HIS015000 History / Europe / Great Britain, Religion, State & Local, History, United States, Cults, HIS036000 History / United States / General
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2017-07-07T00:00:00+00:00


Pitty and Prayers rather than Censures are their due; on which account I am glad that there is published to the World (by my Son) a Breviate of the Tryals of some who were lately executed, whereby I hope the thinking part of Mankind will be satisfied, that there was more than that which is called Spectre Evidence for the Conviction of the Persons condemned. I was not my self present at any of the Tryals, excepting one, viz. that of George Burroughs; had I been one of his Judges, I could not have acquitted him: For several Persons did upon Oath testifie, that they saw him do such things as no Man that has not a Devil to be his Familiar could perform: And the Judges affirm, that they have not convicted any one meerly on the account of what Spectres have said, or of what has been represented to the Eyes or Imaginations of the sick bewitched Persons.102



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