Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem (2 page)
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Authors: Rosalyn Schanzer
Tags: #Juvenile Nonfiction, #Witchcraft - Massachusetts - Salem - History, #Witchcraft, #Body; Mind & Spirit, #Puritans, #Puritans - Massachusetts - Salem - History, #Witchcraft & Wicca, #General, #United States, #Religion, #Salem, #Colonial & Revolutionary Periods, #Massachusetts, #Christian Church, #Salem (Mass.) - Church History, #Christianity, #History
PHILIP & MARY ENGLISH
Extremely wealthy merchant and his pregnant wife
REVEREND SAMUEL PARRIS
Salem Village’s controversial minister
INCREASE & COTTON MATHER
Father and son ministers from Boston who write terrifying books about witchcraft
BETTY PARRIS
Afflicted accuser, 9-year-old daughter of Reverend Parris
ABIGAIL WILLIAMS
Afflicted accuser, 11-year-old orphaned niece of Reverend Parris
ANN PUTNAM JR.
Afflicted accuser, 12-year-old friend of Betty and Abigail
THOMAS PUTNAM
Accuser, strongest supporter of Reverend Samuel Parris, father of Ann Putnam Jr.
ELIZABETH HUBBARD
Afflicted accuser, 17-year-old niece of a physician who blames witches for the afflictions
JOHN HATHORN
Interrogator during the preliminary witchcraft investigations
MARY WARREN
Afflicted accuser, 20-year-old servant of Elizabeth and John Proctor
MARGARET JACOBS
Confessed witch who accused her grandfather, George Jacobs Sr.
SUSANNA SHELDON
Afflicted accuser, 18-year-old refugee from the Indian wars
MERCY LEWIS
Afflicted accuser, 19-year-old servant of Ann Putnam Jr., and Indian attack survivor
