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Mondloch, Helen. “Blessed and Bedeviled.”
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Helen Mondloch details a time in which fear of the unknown reigned roughly against the people of New England. Holding a tight grip to religion, similar to Mary Rowlandson in Sweeney’s piece as detailed above, the Salem Witch Trails were a moment in American History which one can dictate to be truly appalling. Taking more than one hundred and fifty lives, with either imprisonment or death, in the course of less than a year, the Salem Witch Trails, as detailed in “Blessed and Bedeviled”, was the product of “legends that flourished among the Puritans”.13 The tales recounted by Mondloch are a sort of “moral to the story” as she explains in finishing up her piece, in that modern day politics face a similar obstacle, as “our democratic principles still face the perennial threat of an arrogant religious impulse”.14 The idea of witchcraft though, in its purest sense, is not what remained the most frightening aspect of the Witch Trials. Instead it was the relationship that people attributed to the acts and the lore. Without the attachment of evil and Satan that people placed on differences in the name of fear instances such as the Witch Trials, and many a war even, could have been avoided. Directory: 2015 2015 -> Executive Summary 2015 -> Final review Sheet: Global History I and II topic: Historical concepts/Prehistory 2015 -> Lesson plan template 2015 -> The heart and mind of a steward leader 2015 -> Adolf hitler 2015 -> Running head: integrating african american vernacular english 2015 -> Artificial Intelligence 2015 -> 8 shocking predictions for life after 2020 from Google's genius futurist 2015 -> Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's Duel 2015 -> Communications 2 from the fantail 3 shipmate forum 4 Download 314.5 Kb. Share with your friends:
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