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escen9a IN comedy. and was tho original repre.
sentative OF about forty characters. AepA0'

eseenea e. IN eomody and was tho original repra.
| oo"t"'sF" VI "oout forty Characters.
| THE wlTcMcnArr-uAs1A.
4 III his 1lfa Of A1olletpmod. nr sn,,,,..u
computes the number Of persons Win ,,avo s - =,
executed a. witches, during the Christian cnori,
at nine 1niNions' During tic axtoeutf, nmd
| seventeenth eonturios. 1t is eatiu,atotl thnt IN
Europe, 20o.000 alleged witches woro e.ocn,ed
ch'o'ly by burning. ono-half Of this nunhor
wore inundated In Germany. The small Dsl-
oF'o Vi l'amhcre furnished GOO viotims in tho
spaee o1 aoont four years; md Wurzl,u.e.
WI. Mn,ch u not mitch larRer furnished 600. In the
"tHo olafract Of Linaheinl, one-t e-twsntietb Of TIM
pop"a'.'oh were sacrificed Ia tho sa,no length OF
e'me' IN England, Elizabeth first mado witch.
osa's CRIME OF tho frat magnitude In statute
o''actea IN 1od2 aud hor Succession, JaneB T..
among clio anltial acts OF his reigu, defined tho
crlr'o mihuso'y' AUD declared It punishable by
aeaeal. * 10" years thereafter, tho witch.manin
leaeheu lts helght, and, before 1t had eukBided
1o,o0o Innocent Victims had beou oxeoutod
During The sitting Of tho Long Parliament.
s.oao porAona petlshnd undor tho scouaatinn II
wtchcraft. In Scotland. from htst to last, about
4,not' porH1na werc sacriticnl to The dulusion.
Tho earlieat execution for witchcrafs in Nav
laaggnn Engannd. Of which on account las boon pre-
sersea. WAS thRt OF Margaret Jones. of Cha,fct.
snm1'. t n a. June le4a. Tho lsport Ut tho case IL
rasao '9nuM n y ~" onInal Of Gov, Winthrop who
rant, A. In Hartford, Mary Johnson was % oscot'tsd
Tor tho Bamo cs1ns Ia tho name war TtHis>.
tTo E''.., psraons were tried in 1G51; throe
w,1aasa wo@sn sne ~e5e a4,omnS1 J 90 icss
nn4 m Eiizaboth legnr suffered like ito in las,
Fairfield. Conn, In 1876, Mrs Ann Hi6lina ths ~
Mtrom stro Of ma an % eminent Boston eronant and nay.
Katharine Harrison VIA contlynnsrl al Wath,'
| erhsield. While these persona Win cnndonnnnd
and exoentod. others ~ero accused1nd tr'"d ~,
tlte crime n different places. 1EnrSparton onswas
was tried IN 1.52 From 1915 to ie47. tn w.sor.
test. by which Matthew HnpkinB ca'seI "ii H.
death Of 100 porAons in England, was In .onrIsr
ilso IN Connecticut The method waH 10 T. tn
thune or the RIGHT hand mud the great t,e Of
the left foot together, and thon drag lheaccfsed
through the water. II they tloated, wt,iel, tin1
| generally did for Il time. they wero pronounced
guilty; If they sank, they woro apt to uats bc-
sona the t1,r1Bllcion Vt oarthlv jaflgo and jurv,
| From 1859 to 1G19. the wear OF Tho Rront ont.
break in Salem, tho courts Of Essox Countywore
CONTINUALLY Investigating alleged wi.ci.oaoe.
~ !G51. John Godfrey, Of Andnycr, waH acc,sei.
darsi In ,osn G;19ay s;,, Fnt female rtvricia. vas
paeopar FG,'ifa n sg by pas { Ess,
Morse, Of Nowi',try. was disturbed IN q strarr
Manner and MANY examinations fur w,sohcnft
wore the result. Tins. for FORTY veara. sho.Cdo.
nies Of New England waro II, = constant re;npnt
over caEes Of supposed wischcratt. before tie
MANN, culn,inated IN tho "snlom trugstl."
Here, twenty persons, in tho course OF tv
MONTHS mot felon's doom on tho charge Of
co!'usion with tho Devil Ia the practice Of s,,pr-
natural arts. And, shocking as rls
record roads md UNPARALLELED aa seens
the atrocity Of tho instruments Of tlc:o
murders. more victims than suffered at 9a]eu
were hurried to tho gallows yenr after year, Il
. single county in England, during tho sevo1.
tocnt!, century. The puritans Of Now Eug}ana
brought tho seods OF thu lerribla superstiAot
with item from their mother-country, sna tht
fatal germs wcro nouriehed into thcir suhso-
qnent horrid growth by tho prosecutions and
summary deaths that ragged with frightfnl prov.
4lenco throughout England. In 1914. Chief.
Justices North aud Holt opposed their good
sonse and courage to the monstrous delusion,
e end succeeded in subdning It's devastating power;
not c1osot until 17ig, when Mis-. Hicks and
her little daughter, agod Q, wera hinged at Hun
tingdon, for aeling their souls 10 the Devil, md
pracsicing diato!ical arts to tho injury Of the
community.