
A forgotten witch hunt in New England
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Hugh and Mary Parsons, Whore at the Centre of the Story
In early modern world, ideal household must be one where the husband and wife behave properly towards one another. But because Hugh parsons' wife seems so obsessed with witches, then i think that this creates a different set of circumstances. The idea that hugh parsons might be a witch becomes plausible in that may be in other circumstances, and previously it wasn't plausible. So that's what you get at springfield right at this time, this perfect storm of factors. They don't hate you persons, for sure, but they're also scared of him. And that's something which i think we can easily lose from our sense of witchcraft.
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