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2006 Witchcraft and the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 Author:U.S. Government This electronic book on CD-ROM provides unique material about witchcraft and the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. On March 1, 1692, Salem, Massachusetts authorities charged Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and a slave woman, Tituba, with practicing witchcraft. The arrests inaugurated the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Over the following months, m... more »ore than 150 men and women in and around Salem were jailed on sorcery charges. Nineteen people eventually hanged on Gallows Hill and an additional victim was pressed to death. Cousins Abigail Williams and Betty Parris began entering trance-like states and suffering from convulsive seizures in January. By late February, prayer, fasting, and medical treatment had failed to relieve the girls' symptoms and quiet the blasphemous shouting that accompanied their fits. Pressured to explain, they accused three local women of sorcery. A recent epidemic of small pox, heightened threats of Indian attack, and small town rivalries, primed the people of the Salem area for the mass hysteria that characterized the witch trials. Although social status and gender offered little protection from accusations, historians note that single women particularly were vulnerable to charges of practicing witchcraft. Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba all lacked male protectors. In addition, there is material on cults and hypnotism, along with a unique collection of once-secret federal documents about paranormal phenomena. It includes three major declassified Pentagon reports involving paranormal phenomena: (1) Paraphysics Research and Development in the Warsaw Pact Air Force Foreign Technology Division. Unusual (paranormal) mental functioning. Extrasensory Perception (ESP), Psychokinesis, Remote Viewing, Parapsychology, Telepathy, Clairvoyance, Psychoenergetics, Subception, Dowsing, Precognition, Subliminal Response (2) Controlled Offensive Behavior Research in the Soviet Union - Prepared by the U.S. Army. Apport Technique, ESP, Psychokinesis, Reincarnation, Kirlian Photography, Astral Projection, Bioplasma, PSI. (3) Soviet Parapsychology Research, Energy Transfer, Psychotronic Generator, Out-of-Body Phenomena, Psychokinesis (PK). This incredible and comprehensive collection of documents also includes material on UFOs, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Roswell incident.« less