{"id":299,"date":"2011-12-21T01:41:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T01:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=299"},"modified":"2016-07-04T12:59:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:59:03","slug":"is-it-not-plain-that-people-had-frightened-their-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Is it not plain that people had frightened their children?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style76\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Dec. 21, 2011<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">\u201cIs it not plain that the people had frightened their children with so many tales that they could not sleep without dreaming of the devil, and then made the poor women of the town confess what the children said of them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From Francis Hutchinson&#8217;s \u201cHistorical Essay Concerning Witchcraft\u201d (1718) describing the 1669 \u201cseduction\u201d of 300 children in Mora, Sweden, which resulted in the burning of 85 \u201cwitnesses\u201d (cited in &#8220;Victims of Memory&#8221; by Mark Pendergrast)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 21, 2011 \u201cIs it not plain that the people had frightened their children with so many tales that they could not sleep without dreaming of the devil, and then made the poor women of the town confess what the children said of them?\u201d \u2013 From Francis Hutchinson&#8217;s \u201cHistorical Essay Concerning Witchcraft\u201d (1718) describing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2541,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/2541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}