Shortly after the alleged incident, in January of 1692, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams began having fits and seizures and displayed strange behavior such as barking like dogs and complaining that invisible spirits were pinching them. And upon examination I found she had tried the same charm: and after her confession of it and manifestation of repentance for it, and our prayers to God for her, she was speedily released from those bonds of Satan.” Another I was called to pray with, being under some fits and vexations of Satan. A just warning to others, to take heed of handling the Devils weapons, lest they get a wound nearby.

And she was afterward followed with diabolical molestation to her death and so died a single person. “I knew one of the afflicted persons, who (as I was credibly informed) did try with an egg and a glass to find her future husbands calling till there came up a coffin, that is, a spectre in likeness of a coffin. Ann Putnam, Jr, & the Salem Witch Trials:Īnn Putnam, Jr’s, role in the Salem Witch Trials began in the winter of 1691/92, when some of the afflicted girls reportedly dabbled in fortune-telling techniques, specifically a technique known as the “venus-glass” during which the girls dropped egg whites into a glass of water and interpreted whatever shapes or symbols appeared in an attempt to learn more about their future husbands.Īccording to the book A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft by local minister, Reverend John Hale, on one of these occasions the girls became terrified when they saw the shape of a coffin in the glass: The Putnams were a wealthy family who had lived in Salem for four generations. Ann Putnam, Jr, was one of the afflicted girls during the Salem Witch Trials and the daughter of the witch trials ringleader Thomas Putnam.īorn on Octoin Salem, Ann Putnam, Jr, was the oldest of 10 children born to Ann Carr Putnam and Thomas Putnam, a sergeant in the local militia who had served in King Phillip’s War.

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