Sneezes are said to allow demons to enter your body that is why we say bless your to people who sneeze. This superstition is represented by Ruth Mrs. Putnam says “Her grandma come. She’s improving a little; I think she gave a powerful sneeze before”. This quote may tell the townspeople that Ruth indeed is possessed because a sneeze could have let the demon in. The last sign of superstition that I will be talking about is the number seven. The number seven associated with several things for example there is seven years of bad luck when you break a mirror but in this I will be talking about it in that way that the seventh son is supposed to be extremely lucky. Mrs. Putnam says to Reverend Parris “Reverend Parris I have laid seven babies unbaptized in the earth.” We know that the seventh son is supposed to be lucky yet it has died like the rest of her babies. She knows that it is supposed to be lucky and it died so something unnatural is happening to them. In conclusion of this essay I would like the note the importance of superstitions in the play. Every one of the accusation that are made are based on superstition and aren’t backed up by facts. In this essay discussed the way in which the puritans showed their superstitious way in the thee forms death messengers, sneezes, the number
Sneezes are said to allow demons to enter your body that is why we say bless your to people who sneeze. This superstition is represented by Ruth Mrs. Putnam says “Her grandma come. She’s improving a little; I think she gave a powerful sneeze before”. This quote may tell the townspeople that Ruth indeed is possessed because a sneeze could have let the demon in. The last sign of superstition that I will be talking about is the number seven. The number seven associated with several things for example there is seven years of bad luck when you break a mirror but in this I will be talking about it in that way that the seventh son is supposed to be extremely lucky. Mrs. Putnam says to Reverend Parris “Reverend Parris I have laid seven babies unbaptized in the earth.” We know that the seventh son is supposed to be lucky yet it has died like the rest of her babies. She knows that it is supposed to be lucky and it died so something unnatural is happening to them. In conclusion of this essay I would like the note the importance of superstitions in the play. Every one of the accusation that are made are based on superstition and aren’t backed up by facts. In this essay discussed the way in which the puritans showed their superstitious way in the thee forms death messengers, sneezes, the number