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beggars-opera · 9 months
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The Salem Witch Trials teach us the real lessons of life, like how Satan's wrath is small beans compared to that of Karen next door who hates your guts
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fallwithdrawals · 10 months
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Salem By Artist Ryta Margaryta Yermolayeva
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chezzkidsarchive · 1 month
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One thing I've come to learn about running this blog is that not a lot of my experiences were universal, apparently a lot of people do not reenact the Salem witch trials in school where a kid would be pelted with foam rocks in grade school.
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its-kayyyy · 7 months
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time to make some witches angry!
you are not a reincarnated from the salem witch trials.
if you believe you are, sorry to break it to you hun, but your wrong.
there's a few problems with this, (1. only 25 people where executed, their are not enough souls to go around. (2. the people who were executed were not witches but normal christian people. they were just doing stuff that wasn't regular in the community and got accused of witchcraft because it wasn't normal in the community.
has my point been proven yet?
and before i get super attacked I am a pagan witch who does believe in reincarnation. so i am not 'sticking my nose in others business' i am putting my opinion out in my own community, which is, in fact, my business.
and feel free to attack me, block me, tell me how im oh so wrong, but my opinion will still stand indifferent.
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666frames · 2 months
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The Devonsville Terror (1983)
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kemetic-dreams · 3 months
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Onesimus (late 1600s–1700s) was an African man who was instrumental in the mitigation of the impact of a smallpox outbreak in Boston, Massachusetts. His birth name is unknown. He was enslaved and, in 1706, was given to the New England Puritan minister Cotton Mather, who renamed him. Onesimus introduced Mather to the principle and procedure of the variolation method of inoculation to prevent the disease, which laid the foundation for the development of vaccines. After a smallpox outbreak began in Boston in 1721, Mather used this knowledge to advocate for inoculation in the population. This practice eventually spread to other colonies. In a 2016 Boston magazine survey, Onesimus was declared one of the "Best Bostonians of All Time"
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Onesimus's name at birth and place of birth are unknown with certainty. He was first documented as living in the colonies in 1706, having been brought to North America as an enslaved person. In December of that year, he was given as a gift by a church congregation to Cotton Mather, their Puritan minister of North Church, as well as a prominent figure in the Salem Witch Trials. Mather renamed him after a first-century AD enslaved person mentioned in the Bible.The name, "Onesimus" means "useful, helpful, or profitable".
Mather referred to the ethnicity of Onesimus as "Guaramantee", which may refer to the Coromantee (also known as Akan people of modern Ghana). 
Mather saw Onesimus as highly intelligent and educated him in reading and writing with the Mather family (for context, according to biographer Kathryn Koo, at that time, literacy was primarily associated with religious instruction, and writing as means of note-taking and conducting business)
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In 1716 or shortly before, Onesimus had described to Mather the process of inoculation that had been performed on him and others in his society in Africa (as Mather reported in a letter): "People take Juice of Small-Pox; and Cut the Skin, and put in a drop." In the book, African Medical Knowledge, the Plain Style, and Satire in the 1721 Boston Inoculation Controversy, Kelly Wisecup wrote that Onesimus is believed to have been inoculated at some point before being sold into slavery or during the slave trade, as he most likely traveled from the West Indies to Boston.
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The variolation method of inoculation was long practiced in Africa among African people.
The practice was widespread among enslaved colonial people from many regions of Africa and, throughout the slave trade in the Americas, slave communities continued the practice of inoculation despite regional origin.
Mather followed Onesimus's medicinal advice because, as Margot Minardi writes, "inferiority had not yet been indelibly written onto the bodies of Africans."
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franki-lew-yo · 2 months
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Eve and the Witnits - Eye on You
>tmw I accidentally saw my mom's graphic death and realized everyone hated me while I was still 9. Good times.
Mad Gorey could see his thoughts because she was keen to oracle magic.
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dailyhistoryposts · 2 months
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On This Day In History
February 29th, 1692: Arrest warrants for three women begin the Salem Witch Trials. All told, over 200 people were accused, 30 found guilty, and 25 died.
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octoberis4loverz · 10 months
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Can’t wait to go back to Salem this year 🖤
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beggars-opera · 2 years
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Hi, Salem Massachusets is a really fun place to visit, but while you’re listening to the accordion-playing werewolf and eating your caramel apple, please also remember the names of the people who died there in 1692-3, most of whom were executed by a corrupt justice system for a crime that didn’t actually exist:
Bridget Bishop
George Burroughs
Martha Carrier
Giles Corey
Martha Corey
Lydia Dustin
Mary Eastey
Ann Foster
Sarah Good
Unnamed infant of Sarah Good
Elizabeth Howe
George Jacobs
Susannah Martin
Rebecca Nurse
Sarah Osborne
Alice Parker
Mary Parker
John Proctor
Ann Pudeator
Wilmot Redd
Margaret Scott
Roger Toothaker
Samuel Wardwell
Sarah Wildes
John Willard
There are two memorials in town, one at the Charter Street cemetery, and the other at the site of the executions on Pope Street. Please visit them.
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cozyautumnvibes · 6 months
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Autumn Movies: Hocus Pocus (1993)
dir. Kenny Ortega
After moving to Salem, Mass., teenager Max Dennison (Omri Katz) explores an abandoned house with his sister Dani (Thora Birch) and their new friend, Allison (Vinessa Shaw). After dismissing a story Allison tells as superstitious, Max accidentally frees a coven of evil witches (Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy) who used to live in the house. Now, with the help of a magical cat, the kids must steal the witches' book of spells to stop them from becoming immortal.
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nutnoce · 7 months
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Salem Witch Trials, two collaged pieces made from a Peabody Essex Museum pamphlets
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salem-witch-history · 2 months
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Original documentation of the witch trials is extensive, but incomplete. While transcriptions of some initial examinations before the grand jury survive, records from the actual trials do not have such extensive information about the actual proceedings at the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Sworn depositions by witnesses are an important resource, but the actions of those witnesses, as well as the judges and accusers, come mostly from books written about the trials after the fact. Most of the surviving documents are in the possession of the Phillips Library, currently maintained by the Peabody Essex Museum and located in Rowley, MA, although some holdings are elsewhere. Further archives can be found here.
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entheognosis · 6 months
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Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
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