All posts tagged "rituals"
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5.1K1MassachusettsHow John Adams Became A “Church going Animal”
It took a lifetime of study and reflection for John Adams to come up with his religious credo. In the end, the...
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2.9K1MassachusettsEpes Sargent Tries to Get America to Believe in Ghosts
In the 1860s and 1870s, many Americans became obsessed with spiritualism and communicating with the dead. The movement, which began in 1848...
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12.0K4MassachusettsHow the Witchcraft Trials of Susannah Martin Lasted Nearly 25 Years
In 1692, the witch trials in Salem finally ended the life Susannah Martin. It was the culmination of a 25-year-long period during...
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5.7K3New HampshireThe Stone-Throwing Devil of New Castle, N.H.
During the summer of 1682, a stone-throwing devil persecuted a Quaker tavern owner named George Walton in what is now New Castle,...
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4.9KMassachusettsMother Ann’s Work, or How a Lot of Embarrassing Ghosts Visited the Shakers
From 1837 to the mid-1840s, Shaker communities received a flood of ghostly visits they called Mother Ann’s Work. Their dead founder, Mother...
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42.7K5MassachusettsPuritan Easter, or The Devil’s Holiday
John Winthrop famously wrote in this journal that the Arbella departed for the New World on Easter Monday – March 29, 1630....
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5.5K7New HampshireThe Stealth Campaign To Bring the Christmas Tree Into American Homes
Sarah Josepha Hale famously campaigned to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, but less well known are her stealth efforts to bring the...
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