![]() ![]() ![]() John Proctor, who believed the afflicted girls were lying and pretending to be bewitched, dismissed it as nonsense and threatened to beat Warren if she didn’t behave.Īccording to the book The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege, on April 2nd, Warren’s fits stopped and she tacked a note on the local meetinghouse door asking for prayers of thanks for this development. Warren, the twenty-year-old indentured servant of John and Elizabeth Proctor, began having fits in March of 1692, shortly after Betty Parris and the other afflicted girls’ symptoms began. Mary Warren was the oldest of the afflicted girls in the Salem Witch Trials and testified against numerous accused witches before she was eventually accused of witchcraft herself.Ī lot of confusion surrounds Mary Warren’s case, partly because of her own vague and evasive statements during the witchcraft hysteria. ![]()
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