Voodoo

Williams has an affair, is a liar, and is also manipulative. She is a major character in this play, she is portrayed as a 17 years old. Throughout the story, it is revealed that she has been dancing in the woods with the girls of Salem and performing voodoo rituals with her uncle’s salve Tituba. While some believe Abigail is a good child, I believe it or not, because she fell in love with a married man and she lied leading deaths of innocent people. My point is she’s such a liar, for example in Act

full of pictures of her. Continuing with not wanting to see her mother he also, does not want her alive either. Guerra writes “The worst part is a rag doll with my mother’s name embroidered on her chest that’s stuck full of needles” (54). That is a voodoo doll and therefore he wants to cast a spell on her mother for her to die.

uncle. They we’re Seventh Day Adventist and that’s when I became exposed to the SDA faith. In Haiti, my family was officially catholic but as I became older I learned that my grandmother on my mother’s side (my guardian in Haiti) was married to a Voodoo priest and went to church as a formality. Being only 6 and younger, this didn’t really affect me. I remember going to church and seeing all the young girls in white dress and then promptly falling asleep on my grandmother’s lap. When I came to the

From June until September of 1692, nineteen men and women were accused of being witches and performing witch craft. The accused were sent to Gallows Hill, a place near Salem Village to be prosecuted and hanged. Other people were also unofficially murdered. A senior was pressed under heavy stones until he died, for refusing to go to a trial for witchcraft. Many more were accused and had to spend months rotting in jail without being sent to a trial. The uproar began quickly and ended just as rapidly

The Old Alton Bridge is a Historical Landmark to Denton, Texas. This bridge is located in Alton, Texas just within the Denton county line. During the previous decade, Denton county population jumped from having 7,000 to more than 18,000 residents due to them being farmers that planted their food so that they can make money from their crops to feed their family. Besides this certain bridge there were many bridges spread across the county to help with the transportation route for the railroad. The

Colonies in the United States were being settled by 1,000’s of colonists in the late 1500’s early 1600’s. Colonists found very quickly that it would not be easy to settle new land thousands of miles away from there home countries. As the colonists became settled it was clear that more workers were needed; so slaves, and indentured servants were brought to do the work. Although, slaves and indentured servants were used for similar purposes there were many differences in how the work was performed

The Philippines is one of many third world countries, and my family had fled this poverty ridden nation to start anew in the United States. My family, on my mother’s side, began to emigrate here to the U.S. from the Philippines in the 1980s, during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. My aunt and uncle immigrated in the year 1980 on for my grandfather’s funeral, while my grandmother was petitioned and came in 1985, but my mother did not come to the U.S. until the year 1992. The Philippine government is extremely

Witches and Warlocks have been around for centuries all over the world. Everyone has different ideas about them, whether it’s the way they imagine witches would look or if they believe they’re real or not. The definition of a witch, along with the belief in them, has been widely debated. From their first discovery, to modern day there is still no true definition of a witch. As of now, witches are still believed to exist. They have been described in many different forms among cultures and religion

Salem Witch Trials The Salem Witch Trials play a major role in the history of the late 1600’s. The people and their actions involved have changed the face of Salem today. The term witchcraft is defined as the practice of magic intended to influence nature. It is believed that only people associated with the devil can perform such acts. The Puritan town of Salem was home to most of these trials. There were two types of people in Salem; the ones who wanted to leave and the ones who did not. Reverend

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed Mumbo Jumbo is a novel about writing itself ? not only in the figurative sense of the postmodern, elf-reflexive text but also in a literal sense? [It] is both a book about texts and a book of texts, a composite narrative of subtexts, pretexts, posttexts, and narratives within narratives. It is both a definition of afro American culture and its deflation. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Author of The Signifying Monkey Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed?s third novel and by