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In this passage, Godbeer imagines how Daniel Wescot, the well-to-do patriarch of a prominent Stamford family, might have confronted the bewitchment that seemed to be infiltrating his household. Years after strange, painful fits took hold of his daughter Joanna, Daniel now found that his servant girl, Kate, was enduring nightly visits from supposed witches and unpredictable, painful convulsions and contortions.
Daniel, like the other men in his Puritan community, was a godly and pious individual who considered his directive in life to be protecting and providing for his family. In imagining Daniel’s reaction to evidence of witchcraft in his home…