And I Would Like To Apologize To All Of My Friends Who Don’t Watch The Magicians Who Have To Put Up

Beastars is just sexy zootopia right?

I love the fact that Aziraphale's mug has wings. Attention to details my friends

I'm doing a project on Salem Witch Trials and this is very helpful! Thank you for citing sources

SALEM WITCH TRIALS

ALRIGHT SO ONE OF MY SPEECHES FOR PUBLIC SPEAKING ACTUALLY COVERED THE POSSIBLE CAUSES OF THE SALEM WITCH TRIAL. We’ll start with those facts! It was written in the form of the speech where I had to verbally site everything. I rewrote most of it so there are missing page numbers.

-Laura

POSSIBLE CAUSES OF THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS

Cause I:The possibility of the Salem Witch Trials being caused by ergot poisoning.

During the Salem Witch Trials, the girls who started the event claimed to see apparitions, experience pricking sensations and seizures, and paralysis.

Josh Clark in his article, “Were the American colonists drugged during the Salem witchcraft trial?”, discusses a type of ergot poisoning, “Convulsive ergotism attacks the central nervous system, causing mania, psychosis, hallucinations, paralysis and prickling sensations. It was these symptoms that [are reminiscent] of those exhibited by Elizabeth Parris – especially the mania.”

As you can see in the diagram below, ergot is the black part of the piece of wheat. Josh Clark goes on to say that “the [ergot] contains isoergine – the main ingredient in the drug LSD.”

Cause II: The possibility of the Salem Witch Trials being caused by boredom.

Life in Salem 1692 was very different. The Puritan life was a strict one and children were expected to behave as adults. Boys also had more freedom outside of the home than girls did.

Rosalyn Schanzer in her book, Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem, describes how the girls would have been spending their harsh winter. The girls might have spent the unusually harsh winter knitting socks, boiling laundry, sweeping ashes off the floor, ladling porridge, making pies or puddings, making yarn, mending clothing and upholstery, and of course, there would always be time for reading the bible and saying prayers.

The strict lifestyle did not allow the girls to express themselves. Perhaps, it is not unreasonable to think they might have enjoyed the attention they gained from being inflicted. 

Discovery Education’s Salem Witch Trials: The World Behind The Hysteria discusses the possibility of the accusations being an outlet for attention, “It is no wonder that the young girls were… captivated by Tituba’s magical stories and fortune-telling games… activities [that] were strictly forbidden…fear and guilt… may have been one reason for their hysterical behavior. And at a time when young girls were forbidden to act out or express themselves, it is easy to see why they were so enraptured by the attention they received when they became ‘bewitched.’”

Cause III:  The Possibility of the Salem Witch Trials being caused by Religious Hysteria. 

The town of Salem was a struggling one. A good portion of the town were farmers and there was much of the dark wilderness or the great unknown to fear. It would be as if your hometown or a portion of it was suddenly cut off from contact to the outside world. Sermons of brimstone and fire certainly did not help either.

In her New Yorker article, “The Witches of Salem”, Stacy Schiff describes the danger Massachusetts had experienced around the time of the Witch trials, “[In 1676] King Philip’s War… [had] obliterated a third of New England’s towns, pulverized its economy, and claimed ten per cent of the adult male population. Every Bay Colony resident lost a friend or a relative; all knew of a dismemberment or an abduction. By 1692, another Indian war had begun to take shape… The frontier had recently moved to within fifty miles of Salem.”

With a harsh winter and the threat of danger near, it is easy to see why the town might have been paralyzed with fear and sought religious explanation to their problems.

Works Cited

Blumberg, Jess. “A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials.” Smithsonian        Magazine. Smithsonian, 23 Oct. 2007. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.

Clark, Josh. “Were the American Colonists Drugged during the Salem Witchcraft Trial?” HowStuffWorks. InfoSpace Holdings LLC, 18 Jan. 2008. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.

“Salem Witch Trials: The World Behind The Hysteria." Salem Witch Trials - Learning Adventures. Discovery Education, n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.

Schanzer, Rosalyn. Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2011. Print

Schiff, Stacy. "The Witches of Salem." The New Yorker. Condé Nast, 31 Aug. 2015. Web. 11 Oct. 2016.

Some of you have never confused being in love for a very close friendship and honestly

It shows

Boston and Ray are parallels of each other as the rich and broken children of men who don't see them for who they are and who crave something they cannot get and so will fight desperately for what they think they can have whether that be sex or love or merely attention.

Nick and Sand are parallels of each other in what happens when they fall in love with the wrong person at the right time, who fell for the person with the most power to hurt them because the one they love is broken in a way that merely being loved cannot fix.

Top and Mew are... not parallels to anyone because they are opposites of each other and running alongside each other but in different directions, rushing to different ends but tied together against their goals.

Richard Papen is so stupid

His shady friends were like “Hey let’s go for a ride in the night” after they had confided in him that they’d MURDERED someone and didn’t plan on going to jail for it and he was one of the two people that knew about it and Richard was like “yeah sure why not what can POSSIBLY go wrong”

This website is so damn large why don't I have friends here

Exept for you, @anananina

I'm so normal about them☺️☺️ *starts vibrating at a frequency only bats can hear*

i love this ship so much (they bring me immense emotional pain)

Bonus

Korean Vocabulary from The Uncanny Counter

Counter

카운터 - counter

악귀 - evil spirit, demon

영혼 - soul, spirit

하늘 - heaven, paradise

염력 - psychokinesis

코마 - coma

땅 - territory

힘 - power, energy

인력 - gravitation, (force of) gravity

캐치하다 - to catch

올라오다 - to ascend

지우다 - to erase (something from one’s mind)

Health

앰뷸런스 - ambulance

구급차 - ambulance

치료 - treatment, cure

고치다 - to cure, heal, treat

뼈 - bone

Politics / Business

정치 - politics

시민 - citizen

지지자 - supporter

상석자 - a superior official, a senior

의원 - member of a legislative body [assembly]

시장 - mayor

대통령 - president

위원회 - committee, commission

국회 - national assembly

법인 - a corporate body

이사회 - board of directors, directorate

계약 - contract

출마하다 - to run for office, to stand [come forward] as a candidate

대선 - presidential election

Police / Law Enforcement

살해 - killing, murder

살인 - murder, killing; homicide

사망하다 - to die, to pass away

숨진다 - to die, pass away

자살 - suicide

살인미수 - attempted murder

살인자 - murderer

연쇄 살인범 - a serial killer

사체 - corpse, (dead) body

부검 - autopsy, postmortem (examination)

혈흔 - bloodstain

총 - gun

참고인 - testifier

용의자 - suspect

피해자 - victim

검사관 - an examining officer

형사 - (police) detective

경위 - (police) lieutenant

서장 - head, chief

경찰 서장 - chief of a police station

증거 - evidence, proof

수배 - to be wanted (for)

지명수배하다 - to put somebody on the wanted list

사건 - case

영장 - warrant

감찰 - inspection

체포하다 - to arrest

감방 - prison, jail, lockup

People

여사 - Mrs, Ms, Madame

양아치  - bully, gangster

신인 - rookie

양반 - one’s husband

놈 - (informal) guy

새끼 - (informal) kid

걔 - a form of 얘 , short for 그 아이

쟤 - a form of 얘 , short for 저 아이

Verbs

건드리다 - to touch

박탈하다 - to deprive, to forfeit

훼손되다 - to be damaged, to be disfigured

발견되다 - to be discovered, to be found

인정하다 - to recognize, to concede

참다 - to suppress, to stifle

보내다 - to send

교사하다 - to be haughty and extravagant

고용하다 - to employ, to hire

풀다 - to relax, loosen up, unwind

소환하다 - to summon, to cite

Others

단계 - stage, phase, step

유산 - legacy

정체 - identity

부지 - site, (a plot of) land

계획 - plan (for), program

저수지 - reservoir

복수 - revenge

경고 - warning (of/against), caution

이의 - objection (to)

자격 - qualification, right (to do)

충동 - impulse

심하게다 - severe, violent, harsh

구세주 - lifesaver, saviour

연기 - smoke

직접 - personally, in person, firsthand

경이롭다  - wonderful, marvelous, miraculous