A Break With Charity: A Story of the Salem Witch Trials

“Mistress Bishop, ” said Magistrate Corwin, “you are accused of being a witch. How say you to this charge?””I do not know what a witch is.”Immediately the girls in the circle, who were sitting up front in the room, went into fits. They threw themselves on the floor and shrieked and wailed…. They twitched their bodies and howled like forest creatures at the time of the full moon. The howling was a terrible thing to hear. It hit through one’s bones with its primitive sound.