NP but ancestral. Did we know this?

[Robert Mahnke]

There is a misconception sometimes that witch trials were peculiarly
American. I recommend Keith Thomas's Religion And The Decline Of Magic,
first published in 1971, about (among many other things) witches in England
between 1500 and 1700. More here:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2012/06/07/magic-keith-thomas/
https://notevenpast.org/religion-and-the-decline-of-magic-by-keith-thomas-1971/
http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/TEXTS/thomasreligion.pdf

Seventeenth-century New England was much closer to the Middle Ages than we
are to it.

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 3:30 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> *Thomas Baxter (@Valconlander
> <https://twitter.com/valconlander?refsrc=email&s=11>)*
>
> 4/28/18, 6:57 PM
> <https://twitter.com/valconlander/status/990364442813652992?refsrc=
> email&s=11>
> Did you know that Salem wasn’t the 1st witch trial in this country. Why,
> no. That took place in Hartford, a whole 2 decades before!
>
> No it didn’t. Circa 1638 the 1st such trial took place in Springfield,
> under the watchful gaze of the famed William Pynchon. Miles Mathis will te
> --
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>