Talk:Mary Walcott/Archive 1

Archive 1

Who wrote this article??!!

Uhhmmm... hi, who wrote this article? Someone needs to fix the spelling. Also, could someone tell me how come the accused people who weren't killed "had to be in jail for the rest of their lives" if the witch trials ended in January 1693 and people jailed for witchcraft were all released the next spring? I know some of the accused died while in prison, and others were convicted, but isn't the statement "many individuals [were sent] to the gallows where they died very brutally and if some of the people lived they had to be in jail for the rest of their lives and the couldn't pay their way out" sort of misleading?

Its worse than that. This article confuses things significantly from the historical record, of which it looks like I'm the only expert on the internet somehow... which is weird. Mary Walcott was not accused of witchcraft nor did she have anything to do with Tituba. That Mary was Mary Woodrow Sibley. The person who wrote this apparently is confusing the TV show that has significantly butchered my family tree BTW, with reality. I am a living descendant of the Sibley family from the historical Salem Witch trial events, the great grandson x 8 of John Sibley I; father of Mary Sibley Walcott and father-in-law to Mary Woodrow Sibley. Mary Woodrow Sibley was likely spared the gallows because her Brother-in-law, my grandfather x 7, John Sibley II was a town council selectman and captain of the militia; you can't exactly burn your sister-in-law at the stake and stay on good relations and expect a good experience at Thanksgiving, can you? Mary Woodrow Sibley is the one made the witch cake and was Tituba's slave owner.98.247.181.119 (talk) 02:40, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

[personal attack removed].--Plavalagunanbanshee 21:47, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

The Crucible: Name change?

I think the cast of The Crucible included a "Susanna Walcott" rather than a "Mary Walcott," but I'm not sure whether this is true. Was Susanna her sister's name (since Miller had a tendency to combine characters to simplify the cast) or was her first name changed to avoid confusion with another Mary in the play?

No. Mary Walcott's sister was named Hannah. However, Susanna Sheldon was one of the other accusers during the witch trials.98.247.181.119 (talk) 02:59, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.203.66.82 (talk) 01:35, 27 March 2008 (UTC) 

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