TITUBA S CONFESSION: THE MULTICULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF THE 1692 SALEM WITCH-HUNT. |
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Breslaw, Elaine G.
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1/1/97
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Journal
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Ethnohistory
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44(3)p.553-556
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African American
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Examines the role of the Indian servant Tituba in the Salem, Massachusetts, witch scare of 1692. Rejects the notion that Tituba was an African American or was involved in occult activities prior to February 1692 butstresses the multiethnic factors in her behavior and the influence of her American Indian background on the Puritan response. Her confession, blending elements from English, African, and American Indian notions ofthe occult and linking folk practices to an elite concept of the devil, was of particular significance in the shaping of this bizarre event.
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