Women and Witches: Puritans In Fact and Fiction by Amy Tavidian Acosta Southeastern Louisiana University

Or Sex and Sin: Who’s the Baby’s Daddy?

The Puritans: 1620-Present Theocracy and Patriarchy “City upon a Hill” God predestines soul to heaven or hell “The Evil Ones” Signs of God’s favor or disfavor Anne Salem 9/11 Theocracy: Church +State Patriarchal Society: Fathers rule

Fact: Anne Dudley Bradstreet ( ) 8 Babies Babies’ Daddy: Simon Bradstreet

Happy Facts First published American poet, male or female First published woman writer in the American colonies

Facts (some sad) Anne Bradstreet’s father and husband served as magistrates at Anne Hutchinson’s 1638 excommunication trial. Anne Bradstreet's younger sister, Sarah, married the same year that Anne Hutchinson was excommunicated.

From “The Prologue” of The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up into America, by a Gentlewoman in such Parts, 1647 …I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on female wits; If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance…

And More Sad Facts March 22, 1638, Hutchinson was excommunicated for heresy and sedition in a court of 46 men at civil trial in Boston. She was 46 and pregnant with her 16 th child during the trial Gov. Winthrop exhumed the miscarried baby: hooves, horns, product of sin

The Verdict: What Was This About Again? “You have been more a Husband than a Wife and a preacher than a hearer; and a Magistrate than a subject…Mrs. Hutchinson, the sentence of the court you hear is that you are banished from out of our jurisdiction as being a woman not fit for our society, and are to be imprisoned till the court shall send you away.”

She Who Laughs Last: Prophecy as Fact … take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you goe about to doe to me, God will ruine you and your posterity, and this whole state.

Tituba (?-1693: last record of her alive, leaving Salem jail) 1 baby Baby’s Daddy: John Indian or Reverend Samuel Parris

Fact and Fiction: which witch is which?

Facts Stranger than Fiction: The Witch Cake Fact: Witch cakes Fact: Tituba made one Fact: neighbor, Mary Sibley, told her to

Fiction: Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Baby: 1 Baby’s Daddy: Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale

Will the Real Hester Please Stand Up?

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