Protect the flock! From JP and Hachette!
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Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.
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Permalink Reply by nathan_p on
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No trouble!
Lemme see what that leaves...
- Children don't have a lot of playtime -- there's work to be done almost from the time a child can stand -- but when they do... Girls will have dolls, boys toy soldiers. There might be a rocking horse. In the winter there's sledding and snowman-making.
- Speaking of winter, when it gets cold it gets cold. School is heated, but not very well, and neither are most of the public spaces available. A child especially will probably be at least a little cold from the first freeze to the last. Father might meet to talk with other men in a pub, where it's warm and someone else is cooking the food. Mother will sew. The children will get antsy when it's too cold to play outside. Everyone will get sick and it will spread like wildfire. One of the children may die of illness or the cold; he'll be buried and everyone will move on.
That pretty well covers the generals... next, specifics!
- Abigail Williams, Betty Parris, and Samuel Parris... Sam is the town minister of Salem. Reverend. Whatever. Abby is his niece, and Elizabeth, called Betty, is his daughter. The girls are of about the same age -- Abby is eleven and Betty nine.
Late in 1691, Salem becomes hostile to the Parrises -- they want Sam out of town. I am not sure if Abby was living with her cousin or if she'd already been resident of Salem.
Early in 1692, deep in midwinter, Abby and Betty begin behaving very oddly -- they scream, throw objects, crawl around the room, utter strange noises, et cetera.
Now, I can't find much fact about the relations of the three. But I can guess.
Sam is stressed from moving to a new town where no one wants him to remain. He may be taking this out on his family, making Betty also stressed.
Abby either doesn't want to move again or doesn't want to see her cousin go: they play such games together! So, it is possible that Abby coerces Betty into acting so strangely... out of boredom and frustration.
Then again, they're bored preteen girls in deep New England winter, so it's also possible that they act out from sheer boredom.
- Information is very, very scarce on Tituba. However. I did dig up some stuff on her.
Mostly she told African or Caribbean stories of witchcraft and voodoo, but she also told fortunes for the girls via an at-the-time-common white magic practice of egg white in a glass of water. All of this was pretty strictly outlawed by Puritan morals.
As to the girls who heard her stories, I know that Betty, Abigail, and Ann Putnam were there a large percentage of the time. Elizabeth Hubbard also seems to have been involved.
Hopefully this helps a little -- as to sources, basically Google. vOv
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Permalink Reply by Contradiction on
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Thank you. :3
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Permalink Reply by Throne_Spaz on
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Is there something wrong with a 5 year difference in a relationship?^^
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Permalink Reply by Megan (Fishy) on
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Nah. Well within reason.
10 year old and 15 year old? This is a problem.
16 and 21, or something? I think you're fine, personally, as long as both are mature enough to handle it. What happened?
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Nothing happen. But I can't tell my mom about my girlfriend because of the age difference. o.o And it sucks ass trying to hide it. >./body>
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Aw, how old are you both?
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Um.. I'm 13 and shes turning 18 November 4th. ~.~
Yeah.....
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That's really not a horrible age difference... is she still in HS?
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Nope. Finished last year.
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Oooh. That might make it harder to explain... how'd you meet her?
Just know your sex laws. If I remember right, you're here in CA. Everything's illegal here until you're 18, and if you get caught doing anythingbeyond kissing your girlfriend she can get in serious trouble...
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I've know her since i was like 2 but just started really talking the past year. c:
I'm going to put a pic of her up. :D -
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