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Henry Peterson. Dulcibel: A Tale of Old Salem
Dulcibel: A Tale of Old Salem
Table of Contents
Illustrations
CHAPTER I
Dulcibel Burton
CHAPTER II
In Which Some Necessary Information is Given
CHAPTER III
The Circle in the Minister's House
CHAPTER IV
Satan's Especial Grudge against Our Puritan Fathers
CHAPTER V
Leah Herrick's Position and Feelings
CHAPTER VI
A Disorderly Scene in Church
CHAPTER VII
A Conversation with Dulcibel
CHAPTER VIII
An Examination of Reputed Witches
CHAPTER IX
One Hundred and Fifty More Alleged Witches
CHAPTER X
Bridget Bishop Condemned to Die
CHAPTER XI
Examination of Rebecca Nurse
CHAPTER XII
Burn Me, or Hang Me, I Will Stand in the Truth of Christ
CHAPTER XIII
Dulcibel in Danger
CHAPTER XIV
Bad News
CHAPTER XV
The Arrest of Dulcibel and Antipas
CHAPTER XVI
Dulcibel in Prison
CHAPTER XVII
Dulcibel before the Magistrates
CHAPTER XVIII
Well, What Now?
CHAPTER XIX
Antipas Works a Miracle
CHAPTER XX
Master Raymond Goes to Boston
CHAPTER XXI
A Night Interview
CHAPTER XXII
The Reverend Master Parris Exorcises "Little Witch."
CHAPTER XXIII
Master Raymond Also Complains of an "Evil Hand."
CHAPTER XXIV
Master Raymond's Little Plan Blocked
CHAPTER XXV
Captain Alden before the Magistrates
CHAPTER XXVI
Considering New Plans
CHAPTER XXVII
The Dissimulation of Master Raymond
CHAPTER XXVIII
The Cruel Doings of the Special Court
CHAPTER XXIX
Dulcibel's Life in Prison
CHAPTER XXX
Eight Legal Murders on Witch Hill
CHAPTER XXXI
A New Plan of Escape
CHAPTER XXXII
Why the Plan Failed
CHAPTER XXXIII
Mistress Ann Putnam's Fair Warning
CHAPTER XXXIV
Master Raymond Goes Again to Boston
CHAPTER XXXV
Captain Tolley and the Storm King
CHAPTER XXXVI
Sir William Phips and Lady Mary
CHAPTER XXXVII
The First Rattle of the Rattlesnake
CHAPTER XXXVIII
Conflicting Currents in Boston
CHAPTER XXXIX
The Rattlesnake Makes a Spring
CHAPTER XL
An Interview with Lady Mary
CHAPTER XLI
Master Raymond is Arrested for Witchcraft
CHAPTER XLII
Master Raymond Astonishes the Magistrates
CHAPTER XLIII
Why Thomas Putnam Went to Ipswich
CHAPTER XLIV
How Master Joseph Circumvented Mistress Ann
CHAPTER XLV
The Two Plotters Congratulate Each Other
CHAPTER XLVI
Mistress Ann's Opinion of the Matter
CHAPTER XLVII
Master Raymond Visits Lady Mary
CHAPTER XLVIII
Captain Tolley's Propositions
CHAPTER XLIX
Master Raymond Confounds Master Cotton Mather
CHAPTER L
Bringing Affairs to a Crisis
CHAPTER LI
Lady Mary's Coup D'Etat
CHAPTER LII
An Unwilling Parson
CHAPTER LIII
The Wedding Trip and Where Then
CHAPTER LIV
Some Concluding Remarks
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"Who else?" This set the children's imagination roving. Their first charges were not so unreasonable. Why, the vagrant Sarah Good, a social outcast, wandering about without any settled habitation; and Sarah Osburn, a bed-ridden woman, half distracted by family troubles who had seen better days. There the truth was out. Tituba, Sarah Good and Sarah Osburn were the agents of the devil in this foul attempt against the peace of the godly inhabitants of Salem village.
For it was a common belief even amongst the wisest and best of our Puritan fathers, that the devil had a special spite against the New England colonies. They looked at it in this way. He had conquered in the fight against the Lord in the old world. He was the supreme and undoubted lord of the "heathen salvages" in the new. Now that the Puritan forces had commenced an onslaught upon him in the western hemisphere, to which he had an immemorial right as it were, could it be wondered at that he was incensed beyond all calculation? Was he, after having Europe, Asia and Africa, to be driven out of North America by a small body of steeple-hatted, psalm-singing, and conceited Puritans? No wonder his satanic ire was aroused; and that he was up to all manner of devices to harass, disorganize and afflict the camp of his enemies.
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