Samuel Parris: minister at Salem Village
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2013
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M.A.
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2013
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Department of History
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Indiana University
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In mid-January of 1691/2 two young girls in the household of Samuel Parris, the minister of Salem Village, Massachusetts, began exhibiting strange behavior. "It began in obscurity, with cautious experiments in fortune telling. Books on the subject had 'stolen' into the land; and all over New England, late in 1691, young people were being 'led away with little sorceries.'" The young girls of Salem Village had devised their own creation of a crystal ball using "the white of an egg suspended in a glass" and "in the glass there floated 'a specter in the likeness of a coffin.'"
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
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Parris, Samuel, 1653-1720 -- Biography, Parris, Samuel, 1653-1720 -- Sermons, Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Salem (Mass.) -- Church history, Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem, Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- Sermons, Salem (Mass.) -- Social conditions, Puritans -- New England
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