"The ideal Puritan girl was a sterling amalgam of modesty, piety, and tireless industry. She was to speak neither too soon nor too much. She read her Scripture twice daily. Increase Mather warned that youths who disregarded their mothers could expect to 'come to the gallows, and be hanged in gibbets for the ravens and eagles to feed upon them.'"
Stacy Schiff "The Witches of Salem," The New Yorker, Sept. 7, 2015
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