1.0The Educated Imaginationhttps://macblog.mcmaster.ca/fryeblogMichael Happyhttps://macblog.mcmaster.ca/fryeblog/author/michaelhappy/Salem Witch Trials - The Educated Imaginationrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="zBUGL19Y6J"><a href="https://macblog.mcmaster.ca/fryeblog/2010/09/19/salem-witch-trials/">Salem Witch Trials</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://macblog.mcmaster.ca/fryeblog/2010/09/19/salem-witch-trials/embed/#?secret=zBUGL19Y6J" width="600" height="338" title="“Salem Witch Trials” — The Educated Imagination" data-secret="zBUGL19Y6J" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g&feature=related The ugly absurdity and mass hysteria in this kind of thinking is nicely satirized in this famous sequence from Monty Python and the Holy Grail On this date in 1692 Giles Corey was pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials. Frye on “witch-finding” in Denham’s Northop Frye Unbuttoned: Reading […]