Word: witchcraft
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...author first became interested in the witchcraft trials, which are observing their 300th anniversary this year, because of their legal significance...
...witch trials are among the most famous trials ever," Bresler said. "I started to read about the trials and realized how the witchcraft hysteria had engulfed Harvard...
According to the book, a dozen men associated with Harvard had ties to the trials. One student, George Burroughs, was tried, convicted and hanged for witchcraft...
...William Stoughton, after whom Stoughton Hall is named, was the chief justice of the witch trials. Two treasurers of Harvard, Thomas Danforth and John Richards, acted as judges on the witchcraft court, along with their Harvard classmate Samuel Sewell...
...Sheehy and Greer is that menopause is a soul-shattering change, a passage to a new life -- in Sheehy's more upbeat view, a stern confrontation with death; in Greer's scheme, a time to put aside worldly things (coffee and tea as well as sex) and take up witchcraft or, depending on one's tastes, religion...