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What's in this Guide? The 71 new items not included in Salem Witchcraft Papers are hilited. Cross-Reference: Richard Godbeer's The Salem Witch Hunt and Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt This page will help you if you are using the modernized transcriptions in Godbeer's book and want to refer to the unmodified transcriptions of 71 of them that are available in Records.
A brief and true narrative of some remarkable passages relating to sundry persons afflicted by witchcraft at Salem village, which happened from the nineteenth of March to the fifth of April, collected by Deodat Lawson This pamphlet acts as a first-hand, primary document guide to some of the extraordinary incidents that afflicted various individuals, primarily women, during the Salem witch trials.
Author Deodat Lawson was a minister located in Salem, and compiled the events he claims to have personally witnessed during this time. Such accounts are helpful in establishing a timeline, as well as in establishing what allegedly occurred and the perceptions of those present. The Salem Witchcraft Papers Warrant for the Apprehension of Tituba and Sarah Osborne This source is a collection of transcripts from court records written during the trials.
Examination of Tituba This source is a collection of transcripts from court records written during the trials. Examination of Rebecca Nurse This source is a collection of transcripts from court records written during the trials. In many instances, the spirit might appear as an animal, such as a black cat or a wolf. The dream or vision was then admitted as evidence. The booklet was a report of the proceedings of the Bury St. Edmunds witch trials in Suffolk, England which were conducted intermittently between the years and Specifically, the booklet covered the case of Amy Denny and Rose Cullender, who were accused of witchcraft, stood trial and were hanged in Lowestoft, England in Upon discovering that no lesser person than Sir Matthew Hale had permitted spectral evidence to be used in that case, the magistrates accepted the validity of spectral evidence and the trials proceeded.
Touch Test — Utilized in Andover, Massachusetts in September , this evidentiary practice appears to have been exclusive to Andover.
If the accused witch touched the victim while the victim was having a fit, and the fit then stopped, it meant the accused was the person who had afflicted the victim. At that time, it was believed that if the hand of a witch touched the body of the person whom they had bewitched, that person would immediately become well and could identify the witch. However, when the accused touched the girls, they would immediately come out of their fit and identify the person touching them of being the one who afflicted them.
This evidence was enough to cause the arrest of the accused as witches. After this event, warrants were issued for 18 men and women who had been accused in the touch test. Even red spots, bumps under the tongue, or in private parts might be a witch mark. After an accused witch had been arrested, his or her body would be searched for any peculiarities. Doctors and midwives were employed for these searches, which were frequently done before the judge, jury and an audience.
It was later found that some of these so-called sharp objects were actually blunt or dull. Out of fear people sometimes cut off their warts, moles, and other bumps in order not to be suspect as a witch. However, these tactics helped very little, because the scars that were left were just as suspect. The first part of the examination generally included the accusers, who would demonstrate the effect that the accused, or their specters, were having on them at the moment or had in the past.
Early on in the examinations and trials, spectral evidence, based on dreams and visions was allowed and used as evidence of guilt. Other accusers might testify to having witnessed the accused bewitching people, behaving oddly, or to their general character.
The accused were then questioned by the magistrates, who generally assumed a presumption of guilt.
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