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I had no idea there was a Noyes connection!

It's nuts! Especially the part where Nathaniel Hawthorne imported the blood-to-drink curse-death wholesale into the backstory of The House of the Seven Gables, so that I have twice told the story about spatch's ancestor and been corrected for confusing fiction with fact.

Thank you for sharing the poem; I like the demons you brought to your marriage.

Thank you.

-- I feel like accounts tend to close with "they stopped hanging witches and the craze ended," but nothing ends when you're all still living in the same small village.

Same. I really would love to see someone dramatize it. I don't know how you live with something like that in general and in particular I don't know how Puritan society/theology expected or directed you to.

I had forgotten that The Crucible ends, ahistorically, with two of the accusing girls running away to England, I suppose just because Miller couldn't get his mind around this very problem.

I knew The Crucible had historical issues, but I didn't remember that one. Narratively neater, but.

I keep thinking about the vagueness you mentioned about slaves in Salem Village; I don't have that information and I'd also really like to know. Much of what I know about Tituba is—at least the last time I checked—how much we don't know about her.