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Essex County Chronicles: Early Inhabitants Lived In Fear Of Mammy Redd, Old Luce
Author: Jim McAllister Source: Salem News (MA)
Title: ESSEX COUNTY CHRONICLES: EARLY INHABITANTS LIVED IN FEAR OF MAMMY REDD, OLD LUCE
As Salem's Haunted Happenings celebration cranks into full gear, the city's streets are often filled with visitors dressed and made up as evil old crones, the likes of whom once terrified the residents of local communities.
Mammy Redd, for example, was a 17th-century Marblehead fisherman's wife of whom it was said, "Sweet milk could turn/To mould in a churn."
Had that been the worst activity attributed to her, Mammy Redd might have survived the infamous Salem witch trials of 1692. But according to Marblehead historian Samuel Roads Jr., the local woman was also believed to have caused the illness and deaths of her neighbors' little ones simply by "wishing that a 'bloody cleaver' might be found on the cradles of their infant children."
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