![]() ![]() Most of us are familiar with the events, and perhaps even with the details, but Kathleen Kent has put such a human face on Martha Carrier and her family that it all seems imbued with a fresh kind of horror and terror. Look around, closely, and see the blame game and hysteria of our own times. The reality of what happened to 20 innocent men and women in Salem, and to countless others who were not hanged, reads like a twisted fairytale but of course, it is all too real and all too revealing of who we humans can be in our worst hours. Her little feet and hands were bound by iron manacles so she could not send her spirit out and torment further the girls who were her accusers. on that exact hour, a four-year-old girl, Dorcas Good, was examined by those judges in Salem Town jail. They have built a memorial to the innocents who died there, they have made a kind of tourist industry of it, but the reality of what transpired stills the heart when truly contemplated. Nothing can change the history of Salem, Massachusetts, so the inhabitants have embraced it. ![]() As God in heaven knows, changing a name cannot change the history of a place. ![]()
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