Enemy Within, The
John Demos
Number of quotes: 6
Book ID: 220 Page: 62
Section: 3A2A
1484; the town of Ravensburg (in what today is southwestern Germany, near the Swiss border.)This is, in fact, the culmination of a four-year campaign within the town and its satellite villages; the roster of the accused will eventually total 48. At least half this number, perhaps more, will be convicted and burnt at the stake.
From Ravensburg the witch-hunters move on to Innsbruck, a large Tyrolean community farther east. But here their reception is different. The resident bishop declines to support the charges they bring against several local women and derides Kramer as a “senile old man.” After some weeks the accused are set free, and the inquisitors are forced to depart.
Quote ID: 5455
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 220 Page: 81
Section: 3A2A
In 1654, on a ship traveling from London to Maryland, sailors spread a “rumor. . .that one Mary Lee, then aboard the said ship, was a witch.” At first the captain rebuffed their urging “that a trial might be had of her”; but then, as “cross winds” rose to impede the voyage and “the ship grew daily more leaky-almost to desperation,” his attitude changed. The sailors were permitted to “search her body,” and quickly discovered “the mark of a witch upon her . . . whereupon they importuned the Master Captain to put her to death.” He replied that “they might do what they would, and went into his cabin.” And so, “laying all their hands to the execution of her,” they proceeded finally to “hang her as a witch.”
Quote ID: 5456
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 220 Page: 90
Section: 2E6
A cross should be cut into a broom to prevent witches from riding on it.Pastor John notes: John’s note: from a late 1600’s handbook brought to America by a Swedish immigrants.
Quote ID: 5457
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 220 Page: 103
Section: 2D3B
Anne Hutchinson, who led the movement at the center of this struggle and whose doctrinal claims seemed to challenge the very foundations of the Puritan establishment, was a unique presence: deeply thoughtful, eloquent, visionary, and charismatic, qualities that seemed somehow enhanced by her being also a woman. Her large following, composed of the many Boston folk who attended her special worship meetings, was another attention-getting element. Governor John Winthrop, her chief antagonist, referred to her as a “prophetess,” and the term does seem apt.. . . .
Quote ID: 5458
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 220 Page: 103
Section: 2D3B
Two years later, when the authorities brought her to account in a full-dress ecclesiastical trial, Winthrop would write more pointedly that her doings “gave cause of suspicion of witchcraft.”
Quote ID: 5459
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 220 Page: 104
Section: 3A2A
The earliest firm documentation of a formal proceeding against witchcraft comes from the town of Windsor, Connecticut, in 1647. Sometime that spring a local diarist recorded the following: “One _______ of Windsor arraigned and executed for a witch.” The blank is filled in the notes of the town clerk: “May 26, ’47 Alse Young was hanged.”
Quote ID: 5460
Time Periods: 7
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