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The Salem Witch Trials: Anti-Climactic End and Belated Repentance (Part 8)

By JohnThomas Didymus • May 6, 2011

Salem Trials

(Note: This is the concluding part of an 8-part article series. Read Part 1: The Salem Witch Trials: A Fresh Perspective Read Part 7:

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The Salem Witch Trials: The Tragedy of Convictions and Executions (Part 7)

By JohnThomas Didymus • May 5, 2011

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(Note: This is part 7 in an 8-part series. Read Part 1: The Salem Witch Trials: A Fresh Perspective Read Part 6: The Salem

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The Salem Witch Trials–Witchcraft Superstition and White Magic Folklore of the Puritans (Part 6)

By JohnThomas Didymus • May 5, 2011

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(Note: This is Part 6 of an 8-part series. Read Part 1: The Salem Witch Trials: A Fresh Perspective) Part 5: The Salem Witch

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The Salem Witch Trials: Witch-Hunt as Psychological and Social Catharsis (Part 5)

By JohnThomas Didymus • May 4, 2011

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(Note: This is Part 5 of an 8-part series: See Part 1: The Salem Witch Trials: A Fresh Perspective See Part 4: The Salem

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The Salem Witch Trials: The Background of Social Conflict in Salem Community (Part 4)

By JohnThomas Didymus • May 4, 2011

Salem Witch Trial

(Note: This is Part 4 of an 8-part series: See Part 1:  The Salem Witch Trials: A Fresh Perspective) See Part 3: The Salem

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The Salem Witch Trials: Background of Incessant Warfare–King Phillip's and King William's Wars (Part 3)

By JohnThomas Didymus • May 3, 2011

  (Note: This is Part 3 of an 8-part article series: Read Part 1: The Salem Witch Trial: A Fresh Perspective Part 2: The

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The Salem Witch Trials: The Cultural Background of Religious Superstition (Part 2)

By JohnThomas Didymus • May 3, 2011

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(Note: This is Part 2 of a 8-part article series: Read Part 1: The Salem Witch Trials: A Fresh Perspective ) The Puritan religious

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The Salem Witch Trials–A Fresh Perspective (Part 1)

By JohnThomas Didymus • May 2, 2011

Salem Witch Trials

Many theories have been proffered in explanation of the Salem Witch Trials in towns and villages of the Massachusetts Colony between February 1692 and

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Witchcraft and Demon Affliction Paranoia in Pre-Chrisitan Africa(Part I)

By JohnThomas Didymus • February 17, 2011

Orisa

The elevation of witches to demi-god status in the oral religious traditions of the Yoruba of West Africa allows these mostly feminine persecutors of mankind to be invested with practically unlimited powers in consonance with the dimensional magnitude of the paranoid delusional state of their victims.Witches, being demi-gods, are feared and revered by gods and men alike.