The Witches

[Eileen Pierce]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06pxp2z

An enjoyable dialogue on this topic, via In Our Time.

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> On Jan 5, 2016, at 11:18 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yep. though according to Schiff the MA Puritans didnt accuse its witches of sexual misdeeds like they did in other places, like on the continent. no late night orgies at midnight or roving incubi/succubi. of course, women bore the brunt, solely gender bias. guess Puritans being Puritans even their evil adversary werent accorded such luxuries. which does give us something to think about w/r/t Slothrop and the penis that wasnt his own
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> rich
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>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Now go back to The Scarlet Letter's descriptions of the forest and its hints at all the shadowy stuff that savages, runaway slaves, and lovers do Out There. All that you cite from Schiff, romantically/gothically turbocharged. Is it any wonder out Mingeborough boy Slothrop is so matter-of-fact about Geli's magic? 
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>>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:41 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> reading Stacy Schiff's book about Salem trials. One does get a fine deep dive beyond the trials and hysteria into the Puritan mindset which due to geography, religious, gender, political issues was a built-in recipe for paranoia, a obsession with symbols and portents and all those other things that differentiated the Bay Colony from others bordering on the psychedelic and which Pynchon highlighted with the Slothrop family background. GR makes a lot more sense in summary. 
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>>> rich
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