Blessed Be The Spellmakers Of The World
The Burning Times
               Those Condemned at the Salem Witch Trials
                                           1692             


Bishop, Bridget                                  Hanged  June 10, .
Bradbury, Mary                                
Convicted September 6, ; Escaped.
Burroughs, Rev. George                  
Hanged August 19, .
Carrier, Martha                              
Hanged August 19, .
Cloyce, Sarah                                 
Convicted September 6, ; Reprieved.
Cory, Giles                                    
Pressed To Death September 19, .
Eames, Rebecca                            
Convicted September 17, ; Reprieved.
Esty, Mary                                    
Hanged  September 22,
Faulkner, Abigail                          
Convicted; Pleaded Pregnancy
Foster, Ann                                    Died In Jail
Good, Sarah                                    Hanged, July 19
Hoar, Dorcas                                   Convicted September 6; Reprieved
Hobbs, Abigail                                 Convicted September 6; Reprieved
How, Elizabeth                                 Hanged July 19
Jacobs, George                                 Hanged August 19
Lacy, Mary                                       Convicted September 6, Reprieved
Martin, Susanna                              Hanged July 19
Nurse, Rebecca                                 Hanged July 19
Osborne, Sarah                                Died in Jail
Parker, Alice                                    Hanged September 22
Parker, Mary                                    Hanged September 22
Proctor, Elizabeth                              Convicted; Pleaded Pregnancy
Proctor, John                                     Hanged August 19
Pudeator, Ann                                   Hanged September 22
Reed, Wilmot                                     Hanged, September 22
Scott, Margaret                                  Hanged September 22
Tituba                                                 Held in Jail
Wardwell, Samuel                               Hanged, September 22
Wilds, Sarah                                        Hanged July 19
Willard, John                                       Hanged, August 19
                                  The Kinds Of Witches
                            
From William West, Simboleography
                                                       (London, 1594)


MAGICIANS: Magicians be those which by uttering of certain superstitious words concieved, adventure to attempt things above the course of nature, by bringing forth dead men's ghosts, as they falsely pretend, in showing things either secret or in places far off, and in showing them in any shape or likeness.
SOOTHSAYING WIZARDS: Soothsayers or wizards....divine and foretell things to come, and raise up evil spirits by certain superstitious and conceived forms of words.  And unto such words as be demanded of them, do answer by voice, or else set before their eyes in glasses, crystal stones or rings, the pictures or images of things sought for.
DIVINATORS: The professors of the art of divination which be puffed up with prophesying spirits.  And can manifest who hath stolen things and tell where things lost or stolen be.
JUGGLERS: Jugglers and flighty curers of diseases, which for the curing of all sicknesses and sores of man and beast, use either certain superstitious words or writings called charms or spells hanged about the neck or some other part of the body.
ENCHANTERS and CHARMERS: Enchanters or charmers, through certain words pronounced and characters or images, herbs or other things applied, think they can do what they list, the devil so deceiveth them, or in very deed dispatcheth those things which the enchanters would have done. From these somewhat differ witches or hags, and augerers or soothsayers by birds, diviners by seeing the entrails of beasts sacrificed.
WITCHES: A witch or hag is she which being [d]eluded by a league made with the devil through his persuasion, inspiration and juggling, thinketh she can design what manner of evil things soever, either by thought or imprecation, as to shake the air with lightnings and thunder, to cause hail and tempests, to remove green corn or trees to another place, to be carried of her familiar (which hath taken upon him the deceitful shape of a goat, swine, or calf, etc.)  into some mountain far distant, in a wonderful short space of time, and sometimes to fly upon a staff or fork, or some other instrument, and to spend all the night after with her sweetheart, in playing, sporting, banqueting, dancing, dalliance, and divers other devilish lusts and lewd disports, and to show a thousand such monstrous mockeries.
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