Colonial Woman and Religion-?Woman and Witchcraft?

An Hutchinson gathered her troops in the silence of Boston; it was in Salem loving peace, the devil sorted his witch in the last desperate attack on the saint. For many readers, it seems that there is little connection between magic and religion, but the investigation has resulted in the death sentences of various martyrs in Salem's superstition, which is suspected by Puritan faith and Make believe that there is a relationship between magic theory. Closest relationship

The reason why these women are accused of magic in the New England colony is the subject of Carol Karlsen's well thought out new study, The Devil in Women form. Other historians considered Salem's experiment from a political and economic point of view. Mr. Carlson, a professor of historiography at the University of Michigan, has received feminist 's explanation for such events from the tense relationship between the old land gentry and the new business class. As she has seen, "women are saying a few things about women, they are worried about women, the status of women in society, and the women themselves."

Carroll and Carlsen put this idea in her book "Devil in the shape of a woman: The witch of the New England colony". "Women who turn traditional skills into profits, like midwives, therapists, and female religious leaders stand up In the competition with men, witches lie in case of accusations by vulnerable witchcraft It is presumed to be attached and the alliance with Princeurier provides sufficient factual evidence. "Demonicization is not unique to the 21st century. In the 17th century, the European and American women including the owner of a tavern of Ellior Hollingworth in Salem, the widow Mary Hale, who owned a boarding house in Boston, Business Mary Bradberry with butter in Salisbury, wealthy widow, Katherine Harrison And other people are condemned by magic