CHAPTER VII

_King Philip's War and the Witchcraft Delusion_

THE LAMENTABLE BALLAD OF THE BLOODY BROOK, Edward Everett Hale 82 THE GREAT SWAMP FIGHT, Caroline Hazard 83 ON A FORTIFICATION AT BOSTON BEGUN BY WOMEN, Benjamin Tompson 85 THE SUDBURY FIGHT, Wallace Rice 85 KING PHILIP'S LAST STAND, Clinton Scollard 88 PROLOGUE, from "Giles Corey of the Salem Farms," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 88 SALEM, Edmund Clarence Stedman 89 THE DEATH OF GOODY NURSE, Rose Terry Cooke 90 A SALEM WITCH, Ednah Proctor Clarke 91 THE TRIAL, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 92 GILES COREY, Unknown 96 MISTRESS HALE OF BEVERLY, Lucy Larcom 97

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