Witch Hunt

museum. William Hathorne, who emigrated from England in 1630, was the first of Hawthorne's ancestors to arrive in the colonies. After arriving, William persecuted Quakers. William's son John Hathorne was one of the judges who oversaw the Salem Witch Trials. (One theory is that having learned about this, the author added the "w" to his surname in his early twenties, shortly after graduating from college.) Hawthorne's father, Nathaniel Hathorne, Sr., was a sea captain who died in 1808 of yellow

ill-assorted creatures together under her loving care. Having laid claim to her own will, she lays claim to her story as well: this third chapter of the novel is named for her. When Guruji says of Damini that she must die as the result of Krishna’s hunt, he is speaking metaphorically; but the sinister foreshadowing of his words is inescapable. Sachish remains seemingly invulnerable to her appeal, meditating on “the divine workings of Hladini [pleasure], Sandhini [eternity] and Jogmaya [a human form

out!” flashed through him, but the stranger spoke, and he immediately recovered himself. “What's up in there, are they snoring, or has somebody wrung their necks? Cur-r-rse it!” he bellowed, as if from a barrel. “Hey, Alyona Ivanovna, you old witch! Lizaveta Ivanovna, you indescribable beauty! Open up! Ohh, curse it all! Are they asleep, or what?” And again, enraged, he pulled the bell ten times in a row as hard as he could. He was certainly an imperious man, and a familiar of the house.

eve of All Saints’ Day. It originated as the pagan Celtic festival of Samhain, celebrated in ancient England and Ireland to mark the beginning of the Celtic new year. The souls of the dead were supposed to revisit their homes on Samhain eve, and witches, goblins, black cats, and ghosts were said to be particularly active. The holiday was gradually secularized and was introduced into the U.S. by the late 19th century. Still associated with evil spirits and the supernatural, it is celebrated by children

(September, 1884, Century); The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker (June, 1886, Century), republished in the present collection; The Wimpy Adoptions (February, 1887, Century), The Experiments of Miss Sally Cash (September, 1888, Century), and Our Witch (March, 1897, Century). Johnston must be ranked almost with Bret Harte as a pioneer in "local color" work, although his work had little recognition until his Dukesborough Tales were republished by Harper & Brothers in 1883. Bret Harte (1839-1902) is

too for social satirists. Castiglione’s Il cortegiano (1528; trans. 1537) was merely the most THE RENAISSANCE 35 celebrated of Italian books of manners to promote the new courtoisie which transformed the noble from a philistine soldier and hunter into, at least in theory, a courtier versed in the cultured arts. By 1550, Petrarch would emerge as a dominant poetic model and literary theorists would borrow heavily from their Italian predecessors: Du Bellay’s Defense et illustration de la langue