Escaping Salem
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Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Afterword
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All Themes Women, Witchcraft, and the Subversion of Gender Norms Fear, Law, and Control Practical Threats vs. Spiritual Betrayals Scapegoating and Blame
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Characters
All Characters Richard Godbeer Katherine (Kate) Branch Elizabeth Clawson Mercy Disborough Daniel Wescot Abigail Wescot Jonathan Selleck William Jones Mary Newman Sarah Bates David Selleck, Ebenezer Bishop, and Abraham Finch Goody Miller Mary Staples Goodman Grey
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All Symbols The Devil’s Mark
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Escaping Salem

by

Richard Godbeer
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Goody Miller Character Analysis

Goody Miller was a Stamford woman whom Katherine Branch accused of witchcraft after allegedly seeing nightly visions of Goody Miller nursing a black dog from an extra breast below her arm. Witches were, at the time, believed to have a “Devil’s mark,” or extra breast from which they fed animal familiars. In the midst of these public accusations, Goody Miller fled to live with her well-to-do brothers in Bedford, New York. The community of Bedford refused to extradite her back to Stamford to stand trial, so she was shielded from answering to her alleged crime of familiarity with Satan.

Goody Miller Quotes in Escaping Salem

The Escaping Salem quotes below are all either spoken by Goody Miller or refer to Goody Miller. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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).
Chapter 5 Quotes

Katherine Branch claimed that the Devil had appeared to her "in the shape of three women, Goody Clawson, Goody Miller, and Goody Disborough." [….] Many people had heard Kate relate what she saw during her fits, yet she was the sole source for all that information and the law required that there be two independent witnesses for each incriminating incident. In any case, the information Kate gave was highly suspect: a significant number of Stamford residents doubted that the young woman's fits were genuine; and even if she was seeing specters, how could anyone be sure that the Devil was not misleading her?

Related Characters: Richard Godbeer (speaker), Katherine (Kate) Branch, Elizabeth Clawson, Mercy Disborough, Goody Miller
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Page Number: 105-106
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Goody Miller Quotes in Escaping Salem

The Escaping Salem quotes below are all either spoken by Goody Miller or refer to Goody Miller. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Women, Witchcraft, and the Subversion of Gender Norms Theme Icon
).
Chapter 5 Quotes

Katherine Branch claimed that the Devil had appeared to her "in the shape of three women, Goody Clawson, Goody Miller, and Goody Disborough." [….] Many people had heard Kate relate what she saw during her fits, yet she was the sole source for all that information and the law required that there be two independent witnesses for each incriminating incident. In any case, the information Kate gave was highly suspect: a significant number of Stamford residents doubted that the young woman's fits were genuine; and even if she was seeing specters, how could anyone be sure that the Devil was not misleading her?

Related Characters: Richard Godbeer (speaker), Katherine (Kate) Branch, Elizabeth Clawson, Mercy Disborough, Goody Miller
Women, Witchcraft, and the Subversion of Gender Norms Theme Icon
Fear, Law, and Control Theme Icon
Page Number: 105-106
Explanation and Analysis:
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