3 Quotes by Susan Fair

We’ll join the trial already in progress; Bridget has just been asked by Judge Hathorne to talk about how she bewitched the girls of Salem: Bridget: I know nothing of it. I am innocent to a Witch. I know not what a Witch is. Hathorne: How do you know then that you are not a Witch? On June 10, 1692, Bridget Bishop became the first person to be hanged for witchcraft in Salem.

Your esteemed pig ancestors, having survived a heroic voyage across the ocean, had probably arrived in America about the same time as your owner’s ancestors in the early 1600s, making you, whether pilgrim or Puritan, a very notable pig indeed. A founding pig, if you will.

Between all the witch lit and the relentless misfortunes he and New England seemed to be experiencing, Cotton came to the reasonable conclusion that the devil totally had it in for the tender new country;.