I could well be allowed to hear mass as I am, which is my highest wish. But I can not change my attire, nor does that lie in me.
It does not lie in me to do it. If it lay in me, it would be quickly done!
Joan of Arc, March 25, 1431 (from her testimony at trial).
Joan of Arc In Her Own Words
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Not to be confused with March 25, 1692, when John Proctor of Salem Village encountered Samuel Sibley at Walter Philip's tavern for an ale and asked, "how are the folks of the Village?"
"Very bad last night," Sibley answered, "your maid (Mary) is at it again, she is practicing magic."
Proctor: "I'm going there now then to fetch the jade (A jade is a worn-out horse, a term, when applied to woman is comparable to 'bitch'). If they are to continue (he was upset they had been hanging out laughing), we should all be devils and witches quickly. I tried to keep her busy at the spinning wheel and threatened to thresh her if she tried that again. It worked, too, until I had to be away...."
While they were drinking their beers and planning another whipping of a jade, away from the Village at Stephen Sewall's house in Salem town, Betty Parris had such terrible seizures that her hosts feared she would die. When she recovered enough to describe the apparition, Betty told Mrs. Sewall how the dark shape of a menacing man terrorized her. And in her dream he had promised her anything that she wanted, and a trip to a golden city besides, if she obeyed him.
The Salem Witch Trials, Marilynne Roach
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On this day in 1957 520 copies of Allen Ginsberg's book of poems called "Howl and Other Poems" were seized by U.S. Customs agents.
Why did these words scare the establishment? You tell me:
