The depression and anxiety was beginning to touch her mind in strange and unique ways and many of the townspeople viewed her as insane. The people of a small farming community in Norwich, Vermont believed that the witch locked herself in the basement of her deceased parents house and only ventured out at night under a full moon. The townspeople believed that she stayed in the basement to practice witchcraft and plot her revenge. However, the people of Norwich only knew half the truth. The witches name is Monica Porter and she was a very unbalanced individual. Monica was obese, deformed and unbearable to look at. She cursed everyone around her for the problems that she had endured throughout her life and promised to wreak havoc on their souls. However, the townspeople knew nothing about the accident that occurred during her early childhood that spawned the witch who haunted the town of Norwich. .
When Monica was born, her family lived in the outskirts of Philadelphia as corn and wheat farmers. When she was six, a drunken lad heading home from the bar spotted her walking home and decided to kidnap and rape her. The man permeated an odor of stale beer and sweat and shame and Monica wanted to throw up just being near him. Once he had committed the heinous act, the man stoked a fire in a field and tossed Monica in. Before he tossed her in the fire, the man cut off her tongue leaving her mute so that she may never speak of what happened that night to anyone. The man never expected Monica to survive the fire but she did. However, it came at a terrible cost. Monica was a beautiful young girl with long blonde curls, flawless skin and light blue eyes that seemed to sparkle even in the dark. However, the fire had stolen her beauty from her and replaced by a mute and ugly witch the townspeople whispered about. Monica's parents knew the rumors that were floating around the city. Therefore, they decided to pack up and skip town to a rural countryside farming community where they wouldn't be disturbed.
Julian of Norwich lived in England, from the years of 1342 for to 1413. Her true full name is not known. Not much of her is except what is told in her book, the Revelations of Divine Love. She was a anchoress of the church of St. Julian in Norwich at the time of the great plague. Much like many anc...
The most successful attack on the problem of urban poverty was undoubtedly that carried out by the city of Norwich. ... The main factor that Norwich emphasised was that they distinguished between the Norwich poor and strangers. ... The Norwich scheme relieved the poor as they recognized their existence, and from this created a census. ... The census gave the Norwich officials the opportunity to see how many homeless, unemployed, poor, vagrant and employed poor there were in Norwich, therefore recognizing that there was a problem present, and perhaps giving them a bit of hope in society. ... Fi...
A witch hunt occurs any time when a group of people persecutes another group unfairly, usually blaming that group for larger problems. ... But they were no different in substance and veracity than the Salem Witch Trials. ... Another case of modern witch trials was the Holocaust. ... As we can see witch hunts do not involve witches, some people of the 1692 Salem Village may not have been looking specifically for witches. The modern day witch hunts are driven by the same reasons (race, religion, or political beliefs) and intellectual absurdity and ignorace as their fifteenth to seventeeth centur...
The hysteria that created the Salem Witch Hunt in 1692 was the result of many factors. ... Thus, when the hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials began, there was no force of reason or law to counter the weak evidence that was presented, or the calls for execution of the "witches". Finally, another factor that played a role in the Salem Witch Hunts was the presence of unresolved personal vendettas, long-standing conflicts between some of the individuals in Salem, and political disagreements. ... Eventually this leads to the accusation that Proctor is a witch by Putnam. The Salem which...
Between the years 1692 and 1693, many legal documents and records were found regarding Salem witch trials and their prosecutions in Massachusetts. ... There is a new edition of these records being re-developed to where they are much more accurate and comprehensive than the previous records found of the Salem witch hunt. ... After extensively examining the records and documents, it lead scholars to create Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt, as the new edition and decided to leave it up to readers to determine whether it was a better version then the previous editions. ... People continued to res...
Miller illustrates how the Salem witch trials compare to Senator Joseph McCarthy's Communist hunt. ... -(Friedman) The end of McCarthy's Red-hunt after the trials proved he indeed lacked affability. ... Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Salem witch accusers never would have rose to fame without public support. ... (Theoharis) This resembles how the Salem witch trials run in The Crucible. ... Arthur Miller did not have the need to alter history's story of the witch trials in order for him to make the point that McCarthy's hunt for Communists was truly a twentieth century ...
The Similiarities Between The 1690's Salem Witch Hunts and the 1950's Communist Scare. In the 1690's the community of Salem Mass. was swept up in the controversy of the Salem Witch Hunts. ... During the Salem Witch Trails people were afraid of the devil, and being accused of witch craft. ... The trials and hearings during the Salem Witch Hunts and the 1950's HUAC Communist Scare were similar in many ways, as well as the effects on the accused. ... Those convicted of witch craft in the 1690's could be whipped or imprisoned, if they confessed. ...