An Indian fighter and a judge, Hathorne in one instance ordered that a burglar’s ear be cut off and his forehead branded with the letter B-both common punishments at that time. He settled in Salem, the colony’s oldest town, and became one of Salem’s most prominent townsmen. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s great-great-grandfather, William Hathorne, immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. A short story set in Satem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, about 1690 first published in 1835 In the New England Magazine subsequently published in 1846 in Mosses from an Old Mame, Hawthorne’s fourth collection of short stories.Ī young man appears to attend a witches’ Sabbath presided over by the devil, who reveals to the man the secret evil of humankind.Įvents in History at the Time the Short Story Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Short Story Was Written
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