Word: puritans
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...Massachusetts legislature may soon write the final chapter in the strange story of a controversy which rocked the staid colony of Massachusetts Bay to its Puritan foundations more than 250 years...
...began to gather in the evening at the home of the local minister, the Reverend Samuel Parris, who had several children of his own. The chief object of their attentions was the Reverend's servant, an aged West Indian Negro woman named Tituba. To those impressionable children from austere Puritan households, Tituba told romantic stories of the colorful land of her birth. All through the winter of 1691-1692, the girls sat entranced by the fire-side and heard chilling tales of voodoo charms, witches' curses, and the like...
...girls goaded the town authorities to action. On March 1, 1692, Tituba and two other rather disreputable women of the neighborhood were brought to trial as witches. Surprisingly enough, Tituba readily admitted her guilt and identified the other defendants as co-conspirators in a plot to bewitch the devout Puritan community. Apparently enjoying the limelight into which she had been so unexpectedly cast, she called upon her exotic imagination to supply the judges with new tales of mystery. She told of elaborate witches' convocations which she herself had attended and gave the astonished courtroom a complete description...
Leverett fumbled the kickoff and a Puritan recovered. After two incompleted aerials, Hall passed 25 yards to Rex Snod-grass in the end zone for the final score. The Bunnies play was ragged and they never threatened against a strong Winthrop defense...
...floored by the poverty that haunts his father with the workhouse, wrecks his mother's and sister's health and prematurely kills both, and sweeps the Nimmos into humiliating dependence on neighbors. He is floored by his preacher-father's Puritan code and his mathematical proofs of the imminent second coming of Christ. He is floored by his elder sister's erratic half-fond, half-bullying rule over him when their mother dies...