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Witchcraft in Salem village in 1692 : together with some account of other witchcraft prosecutions in New England and elsewhere (1892)

Nevins, Winfield S · Salem, Mass. : North Shore Pub. Co. · leaf 162

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examined in prison andconfessed that she was a witch. She had at-tended a meeting of witches where Burroughswas preacher, and pressedthem to bewitch allin the village. He administered the sacramentto them with red bread and red wine like blood. . . . Her daughter, Abagail Hobbs, beingbrought in at… … REV. GEORGE BURROUGHS. 145 gentle woman of Boston striving to break herdaughters neck. I quote at this point a deposition exactly as Ifind it on the files, without the change of aletter or a punctuation mark. Besides being agood illustration of the evidence relied upon toconvict persons of…

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