7M+Science+and+Superstition


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 * //**Zach's Group**//
 * Amelia -- pp. 100-115
 * Alexis -- pp. 116-130
 * Avery -- pp. 130-145
 * Zach -- pp. 146-160
 * Luc -- pp. 161 -173

Luc-pg161-173 pg 164 Jethro thinks that Mary gave his hogs the Evil Eye, but Mary was just yelling at them to get away from her garden. pg 165 Jonah is a man of science and has little truck with superstition. Jonah thinks there has to be a logical explanation for the hogs being sick.

zach-146-160-

pg 152- Indian snuck up on mary. She thought he was a spirit because he seemed to appear. pg 154- Martha did all that she could for Jonah but beleived that god would do what's right. pg 158- The herbs brought by the indian helped Jonah a lot. Martha thought itmwas a miracle from god.

avery pgs. 131-145 pg. 141- They hang on every word he says. his word is god's word and god's word is law.

avery pgs. 173-187

pg.179- She was there completely, as if she were sitting in the cave next to me. I remembered the stories about her, how they said that she could change herself into a hare. She had never spoken of it, never said wether it was true or not. There was much that she had never told me; perhaps she had been waiting until I was older, but that time never came.

avery pg.180- "But what is my grandmother's spirit takes the form of a hare because it is her animal-just as yours is the wolf, his is eagle, and mine is the blue jay."

avery pg.180- "This is the place of our ancestors," the boy explained. "Here we are surrounded by their presence."

**Alexis- pgs. 116-130

Page 116-Superstition~ "They argue that they are heathen, the sons of Satan, that we must trust in God to guide us through the wilderness, just as Moses did his people. Not everyone is of the same opinion, even among the Elders."

Page 128-Superstition~ "The forest is also the realm of Satan, and against him and his forces guns offer no protection."

Page 128-Superstition~ "Elias Cornwell reminds us, but despite his ministrations, stories of all kinds gain credence and grow in circulation...."

amelia 100-115 pg115-"Bless you my dear. it is worse here! Folk bring their superstitions with them over the ocean. Once here they find themselves surounded by the forest. No man can say how far it stretches, infested with natives and who knows what. Faith is like a faint spark in a vast darkness. Their fears grow like bind wind, choking everythig."

pg 105-"Savages!"......" they kill us were we stand"(natives)**