10 Fun Facts From The Crucible
Page 3
“In 1692 the Massachusetts Bay Colony executed fourteen women, five men, and two dogs for witchcraft.”
“What discomfited those who survived the ordeal was not the cunning practice of witchcraft but the clumsy administration of justice. “
“No one burned at the stake, they were hanged.”
Page 4
“Fifty-five people confessed to witchcraft.”
“The youngest of itches was five, the eldest nearly eighty.”
Page 5
“The population of New England in 1692 would fit into Yankee Stadium today.”
Page 8
“We have believed in any number of things- the tooth fairy, cold fusion, the benefits of smoking, the free lunch - that turn out not to exist. We all subscribe to preposterous beliefs; we just don’t know yet which ones they are.”
Page 9-10
“Salem touches on what is unreal but by no means untrue; at its heart are unfulfilled wishes and unexpressed anxieties, rippling sexual undercurrents and raw terror.”
“The crisis began with two prepubescent girls and came quickly to involve a group of teenagers, understood to be enchanted by individuals most of them had never met.”
Page 12
“No trace of a single session of the witchcraft court survives.”
Schiff, Stacy. "The Diseases of Astonishment - Yankee Magazine." Yankee Magazine. Yankee Publishing Inc., Dec. 2015. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.
