The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-15
|VlTcAcRAFT At SALEM.
he Conspicuous and Terrible Part
Played By Children in the
Chapter.
hose Horrors Brought on by q
Half Dozen Young
Girls.
i've Of Many Coed Men and Women
Recklsssly sworn Away BY Iittle
Children.

The conspicuous part which was played
h children in the witchcraft chapter at
|,lem was something terrible and very re-
arkable. Mr.. Winfield 8. Nevins, of
|alem. sends the following interesting notes
pom this point to tho New England Maya
Inc:
1.-THE terrible witchcraft delusion in Salon
F. 1881 was caused almost entirely by chill
.en. But tor q half dozen young girls,
lose men and women would not have been
ling on Gallows Hill, nor would poor old
lilies Corey have been pressed to death, nor
krah Osborne and Ann Foster have died in
oston from ill-usaoe and exposure. In
ct, even before the Salem village WITCH
aft, q little girl in Boston, with her
other and sisters, caused Mrs. Glover to
arrested and executed for witchcraft.
he reader will remember that Martha
GOODWIN, in 1868, was thirteen years Of age
aen she had some trouble with her
others wash erwoman, a girl of the name
Glover. and charged her with stealing
me of the family linen. The mother of
Q laundress. who was called by the people
those days a wild Irish woman was
dignant that her daughter should
called thief, scolded little Mar
q. and called her rather harsh
.mes. Martha therupon had q ft. She
id the spirit, or apparition, rs they called
then, of Mrs. Glover tormented her. Her
other, IL years of age, and two little sis
Re, one 8 and the other 5, also pretended
3 testimony of these children Mrs. Glover
Ia Nnnvicfed and huuU
I'm 1892, Elizabeth Paris. 9 years of age,
lighter Of Rev. Samuel Paris, pastor of
Q Salem village church; Abigail Will
ms, his niece, II years of age; Ann Put
Inn, daughter of Thomas Putnam, clerk
the parish, IL years Of age; Mary Wal
tt, Mercy Lewis and Elizabeth Hubbard,
oh II years of age, learned some tricks Of
Mr.. Paris family. The children exhib-
ID their skill in necromancy and jugglery
some of their young friends, and thus a
owledge of what was going on in the
immunity came to the ears of the older
ople. The children, to shield them
Ives, pretended to be bewitched, or to
We fits. DR.. Griggs was called in. He
uld not find that the girls had any
Oily disease. and 80 said they must be be-
The elder people pressed them to tell
DO bewitched them. At first they refused
do this. but finally said it was Tituba,
rah Good and Sarah Osborne. These
men. as we know. we're arrested on the
arge of tormenting the children through
Dir apparitlons, and examined before
local magistrates. The principal testi-
owe mentioned, upon which they were
mmiited to Jail. Osborne died there, and
od was finally taken back to Salem.
ed, convicted and executed, the children
pearing az the principal witnesses against
3. Soon after Sarah Good was sent to
her little daughter, Dorcae, five years
age, was charged with being witch.
n Putnam, Mary Walcott. and Mercy
wis said her apparition had appeared to
pm and bitten them, and they showed
at looked like the prints of little teeth.
icy said Doroas pricked them with pins,
pins were found in their clothes
d on their bodies where they said
Py had been pricked. These are
pins shown the visitor at the court
use in Salem to day. Little Dorothy, az
~ called her, was sent to jail with her
testified against her mother, saying,
. had three birds, one black, one yellow,
these birds hurt the children and
icted persons All through these terri
trials of 1882 children swore away the
es of good men and women, and their tes-
hony was believed against that of the best
pple in the town. Besides Dorcas Good,
kht other children were accused Of witch
1T, the Oldest of whom was only ID, and
only 8 years of age, most of the charges
ing made by their young companions.
p Putnam testified in nineteen oases,
zabeth Hubbard in twenty, Mary Wal
in twenty, Mary Warren in twelve,
(rcy Lewis in ten, Abigail Williams Su-
Sheridan and Elizabeth Booth in eight
In the witchcraft prosecutions in Eng
ID and Scotland, most of the convictions
re procured through the complaints and
the testimony of children. In Scotland,
1867, seven persons were convicted OF
itchcraft on the testimony of one girl
put eleven years of age. In the celebrated
els of Rose Cullender and Amy Dummy
Bury st: Edmands, in 1865, before Lord
be afflicted were children. Elizabeth
p, one of them, was eleven, and her
er nine. It was their crying out
inst Cullender and Dummy that caused
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