Superstition In The Play The Crucible By Arthur Miller
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Grade Level: 10th
Date Created: September 18, 1995
Grade Received: B
Written by:
Erica Hankinson
Erica.Hankinson@juno.com
Superstition and witchcraft resulted in many being hanged or in prison.
In the seventeenth century, a belief in witches and witchcraft was almost
universal. ....
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.... people, who soon showed the same symptoms, such as loss
of appetite and sickness. A belief quickly spread over Salem and throughout the
state that evil spirits are being seen in Salem. Terror took possession of the
minds of nearly all the people, and the dread made the affliction spread widely.
"The afflicted, under the influence of the witchery, "admitted to see the forms
of their tormentors with their inner vision" (Miller 1082). and would
immediately accuse some individual seen with ....
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