방통대 대학영어 중간과제 1. A형 Unit 1. The Canterville Ghost 작문, 2. B형 Unit 10. Witches 해석과 작문

1. The infamous Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft.

2. Though the Massachusetts General Court later annulled guilty verdicts against accused witches and granted indemnities to their families, bitterness lingered in the community, and the painful legacy of the Salem witch trials would endure for centuries.

3. The first convicted witch, Birdget Bishop, was hanged that June.

4. Belief in the supernatural – and specifically in the devil’s practice of giving certain humans the power to harm others in return for their loyalty – had emerged in Europe as early as the 14th century, and was widespread in colonial New England.

5. Those who were revealed, falsely or legitimately, as Communists, and those who refused to incriminate their frie