Article - "Witch or Saint? / The Story of Mary Etsey" Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine | Mila Rindge
March 1970 (Date manufactured/created)
Pages from the May 1985 issue of a periodical by the Daugthers of the American Revolution that discuss Mary (Towne) Etsey's role in the Salem witch trials. Estey is an ancestor of Mila Rindge of Madison who was among the few literate convicted "witches" and is remembered for her eloquent petitions to the judges of Salem on behalf of all the accused. The article provides the history of Christianity's intolerance for folk medicine as it relates to the witch hysteria between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries.
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