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The witchcraft accusations in Salem were a dark and tragic chapter in American history. They occurred in 1692 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, specifically in the town of Salem. The allegations of witchcraft led to the arrest, imprisonment, and execution of numerous individuals, mainly women, who were accused of practicing witchcraft. The events began when several young girls in Salem Village started exhibiting strange behavior such as fits, seizures, and trance-like states. Unable to find a medical or rational explanation, the Puritan community turned to supernatural causes. The girls claimed to be under the influence of witches and accused various members of the community of bewitching them.

For years, animation mavens have been debating whether Pixar or Ghibli was the more gifted animation studio, which was a fairly abstract argument when the techniques were different. But now that the latter has produced its first fully CG feature, there’s just no comparison. “Earwig” is inferior on nearly every level, looking barely better than a small-screen special (which, admittedly, it is, having been commissioned for and broadcast on Japanese network NHK on Dec. 30, 2020). But it’s the storytelling that feels most anemic.

One thing Earwig has going for it is the musical component, opening as it does with her mom singing original number Don t Disturb Me as she races down the highway. Many of her earlier children s books were out of print in recent years, but have now been re-issued for the young audience whose interest in fantasy and reading was spurred by Harry Potter.

The girls claimed to be under the influence of witches and accused various members of the community of bewitching them. The accusations quickly spread, fueled by fear, rumors, and religious beliefs. People suspected their neighbors, friends, and even family members of being involved in witchcraft.

Earwig and the Witch

Most orphanages are horrible, but Earwig has a surprising amount of power over everyone at St Morwald’s Home for Children, and loves it there. The last thing she wants is to be adopted by the very strange Bella Yaga, demon-attended Mandrake, and talking black cat Thomas. Earwig wants to learn magic, but will need all her ingenuity and help from a familiar to survive. Expressive big eyes, twisty mouths, on stick figures flesh out the characters, action, and ravens and spiders adorn the margins.

Genres FantasyChildrensMiddle GradeFictionMagicWitchesHumor

140 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2011

About the author

Diana Wynne Jones

Diana was born in London, the daughter of Marjorie (née Jackson) and Richard Aneurin Jones, both of whom were teachers. When war was announced, shortly after her fifth birthday, she was evacuated to Wales, and thereafter moved several times, including periods in Coniston Water, in York, and back in London. In 1943 her family finally settled in Thaxted, Essex, where her parents worked running an educational conference centre. There, Jones and her two younger sisters Isobel (later Professor Isobel Armstrong, the literary critic) and Ursula (later an actress and a children's writer) spent a childhood left chiefly to their own devices. After attending the Friends School Saffron Walden, she studied English at St Anne's College in Oxford, where she attended lectures by both C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien before graduating in 1956. In the same year she married John Burrow, a scholar of medieval literature, with whom she had three sons, Richard, Michael and Colin. After a brief period in London, in 1957 the couple returned to Oxford, where they stayed until moving to Bristol in 1976.

According to her autobiography, Jones decided she was an atheist when she was a child.

Jones started writing during the mid-1960s "mostly to keep my sanity", when the youngest of her three children was about two years old and the family lived in a house owned by an Oxford college. Beside the children, she felt harried by the crises of adults in the household: a sick husband, a mother-in-law, a sister, and a friend with daughter. Her first book was a novel for adults published by Macmillan in 1970, entitled Changeover. It originated as the British Empire was divesting colonies; she recalled in 2004 that it had "seemed like every month, we would hear that yet another small island or tiny country had been granted independence."Changeover is set in a fictional African colony during transition, and begins as a memo about the problem of how to "mark changeover" ceremonially is misunderstood to be about the threat of a terrorist named Mark Changeover. It is a farce with a large cast of characters, featuring government, police, and army bureaucracies; sex, politics, and news. In 1965, when Rhodesia declared independence unilaterally (one of the last colonies and not tiny), "I felt as if the book were coming true as I wrote it."

Jones' books range from amusing slapstick situations to sharp social observation (Changeover is both), to witty parody of literary forms. Foremost amongst the latter are The Tough Guide To Fantasyland, and its fictional companion-pieces Dark Lord of Derkholm (1998) and Year of the Griffin (2000), which provide a merciless (though not unaffectionate) critique of formulaic sword-and-sorcery epics.

The Harry Potter books are frequently compared to the works of Diana Wynne Jones. Many of her earlier children's books were out of print in recent years, but have now been re-issued for the young audience whose interest in fantasy and reading was spurred by Harry Potter.

Jones' works are also compared to those of Robin McKinley and Neil Gaiman. She was friends with both McKinley and Gaiman, and Jones and Gaiman are fans of each other's work; she dedicated her 1993 novel Hexwood to him after something he said in conversation inspired a key part of the plot. Gaiman had already dedicated his 1991 four-part comic book mini-series The Books of Magic to "four witches", of whom Jones was one.

For Charmed Life, the first Chrestomanci novel, Jones won the 1978 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime award by The Guardian newspaper that is judged by a panel of children's writers. Three times she was a commended runner-up[a] for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book: for Dogsbody (1975), Charmed Life (1977), and the fourth Chrestomanci book The Lives of Christopher Chant (1988). She won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, children's section, in 1996 for The Crown of Dalemark.

The hysteria grew, and an atmosphere of paranoia and distrust enveloped the town. The court of Oyer and Terminer was established to hear and decide the witchcraft cases. The proceedings were deeply flawed, with spectral evidence (testimony based on dreams and visions) being admissible in court. This allowed the accusers to make unsupported claims against the accused without any substantial evidence. Over the course of the trials, 19 people were hanged, and one was pressed to death. These executions included both men and women, young and old alike. Others died in jail while awaiting trial, bringing the total death toll to around 25 individuals. The Salem witch trials eventually came to an end when influential members of the community, including Governor William Phips, questioned the legitimacy and fairness of the proceedings. The court was dissolved, and remaining prisoners were pardoned or released. The Salem witchcraft accusations were largely the result of a combination of factors, including fear, religious extremism, and societal tensions. The trials serve as a cautionary tale about the dangers of mass hysteria and the importance of a fair and just legal system. The Salem witchcraft accusations remain a haunting reminder of a dark period in American history that led to the loss of innocent lives. The events serve as a reminder of the power of fear and the consequences of allowing irrational beliefs to dictate the course of justice. It is important to remember and learn from this historical tragedy to ensure that such injustices are not repeated in the future..

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