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Richard Godbeer 1692 Witch Trial Analysis

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First, we have to answer and analyze this question: Why is the 1692 witch trial in Stamford, Connecticut important? Richard Godbeer as the author wants us as a reader be aware of the way Puritan society thought, how they worked together as a society, how they were implicated with each other and how they fix their problems as a society as we read “Like many of their neighbors in the close-knit town, they had visited Daniel and Abigail Wescot to lend support as the couple kept watch over the afflicted young woman in their charge… The Wescots’ neighbors responded readily. To request assistance in time of need…” (Godbeer 03, 25). The author wants us to realize not so much what happened with these witch trials but more about how Puritan society
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