Samuel Sewall actually reflects a character in the movie Paranorman that I watched with my nephews recently. For anyone who has not seen this PG movie, I found that the plot/content was pretty interesting (and a good way to present historically accurate events to young kids about the Salem witch trials). It is learned at the end of the movie that the "witch" coming back from the grave was really a normal, young girl during that time that had been accused of witchcraft after being caught in an act of imaginative play. The "zombies" that had risen from their graves were the judge and court officials who condemned this little girl to death and were remorseful for their role in such a tragedy. They admit that they deserve eternal punishment, and the only reasoning they had to justify the little girl’s horrible fate was their own fear and ignorance.
Samuel Sewall actually reflects a character in the movie Paranorman that I watched with my nephews recently. For anyone who has not seen this PG movie, I found that the plot/content was pretty interesting (and a good way to present historically accurate events to young kids about the Salem witch trials). It is learned at the end of the movie that the "witch" coming back from the grave was really a normal, young girl during that time that had been accused of witchcraft after being caught in an act of imaginative play. The "zombies" that had risen from their graves were the judge and court officials who condemned this little girl to death and were remorseful for their role in such a tragedy. They admit that they deserve eternal punishment, and the only reasoning they had to justify the little girl’s horrible fate was their own fear and ignorance.
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