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Putnam, Ann
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Putnam, Ann

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    … (age 11), and their friend Ann Putnam, Jr. (about age 12), began indulging in fortune-telling. In January 1692 Betty’s and Abigail’s increasingly strange behavior (described by at least one historian as juvenile delinquency) came to include fits. They screamed, made odd sounds, threw things, contorted their bodies, and complained of…

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    … (age 11), and their friend Ann Putnam, Jr. (about age 12), began indulging in fortune-telling. In January 1692 Betty’s and Abigail’s increasingly strange behavior (described by at least one historian as juvenile delinquency) came to include fits. They screamed, made odd sounds, threw things, contorted their bodies, and complained of…

    Read More